 | Indian Guidance on Certifying Persons with TB as Non-infectiousReleased on 30 May 2025 Indian Guidance on Certifying Persons with TB (document) To support the timely and safe return of persons with TB to their workplaces and reduce stigma and income loos The Central TB Division, MInistry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, has released guidance for certifying individuals on treatment as non-infecious. This evidence-based framework aids clinicians in using clinical, radiological, and laboratory criteria to determine when a person with TB can be safely reintegrated into the workforce without risk of transmission x |
| WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: Module 1: Prevention - infection prevention and control.
Released on 12 September 2022 https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240055889 The reformated version of WHO guidelines on tuberculosis infection prevention and control, 2019 update. x |
 | WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis: Module 1: Prevention: infection prevention and control.Released on 31 August 2023. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240078154 ETTi plans in 2024 to address some inconsistencies and propose clarifications particularly to the environmental controls chapters of the Handbook |
 | Tuberculosis Infection Control: A Practice Manual for Preventing TB, 2nd edition.Curry International Tuberculosis Center/UCSF, 2022-2023 This manual is designed for use as a bridge between clinical and administrative staff and engineering consultants working to reduce the risk of tuberculosis transmission in health and community care settings. |
 | Minimum requirement for infection prevention and control programmes.WHO, 2019 https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241516945 The guidance developed in prepandemic period, mostly focused on contact precautions.
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 | Assessment tool in infection prevention and control minimum requirements for primary health care facilitiesWHO, 2023
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-UHL-IHS-IPC-2023.2 A tool to support the implementation of the above mentioned WHO minimum requirements for IPC programmes. |
 | Infection prevention and control in the context of COVID-19: a guideline.WHO, 2023
https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-IPC-guideline-2023.4 The guideline incudes overview of IPC principles and practices, and IPC measures in health-care facilities for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19, as well as pertains to mitigation measures for COVID-19 in community settings |
| Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities.CDC, Updated in July 2019
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/pdf/guidelines/environmental-guidelines-P.pdf |
 | Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings,CDC, 2005 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5417.pdf
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