Stop TB Partnership

TB CARE I publishes guidelines on measuring prevalence of TB disease among health care workers


27 September 2012 - The Hague, Netherlands - TB CARE I, a programme of the United States Agency for International Development, has published Guidelines to Measure the Prevalence of Active TB Disease Among Health Care Workers.

The guidelines aim to help prevent the transmission of tuberculosis (TB) in facilities in order to prevent TB among health care workers. The guide has been developed to inform the monitoring of active TB disease incidence among health care workers through routine surveillance.

The guide is available on the TB CARE I web site

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Judith Mandelbaum-Schmid

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Sam Nuttall
Vittorio Cammarota
Young-Ae Chu
Jenniffer Dietrich
Elisabetta Minelli