Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes on the management of TB in Children

This document represents consensus guidance developed by the childhood TB subgroup (one of the subgroups of the DOTS Expansion Working Group, under the overall auspices of the Stop TB Partnership). It has been published in a shorter form as a series of papers in the International Journal of TB and Lung Disease:

 

• Chapter 1: Introduction and diagnosis of tuberculosis in children

• Chapter 2: Anti-tuberculosis treatment in children

• Chapter 3: Management of TB in the HIV-infected child

• Chapter 4: Childhood contact screening and management

• Chapter 5: Health staff roles and responsibilities, recording and reporting and BCG vaccination