Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis

Author: Jeffrey R. Starke

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-01-14

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0190220910

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Tuberculosis remains one of the most prevalent, deadly, and underdiagnosed infectious diseases in the world. In children, this burden is doubly problematic because of the disease's unique clinical characteristics and its need for special public health and diagnostic techniques. After decades of relative inattention to these factors, childhood tuberculosis has now grown into an important area of competency for child health programs in low-burden areas, including the United States. The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis is a state of the art clinical reference written and edited by the world's leading experts in childhood tuberculosis. It offers clinicians in any geography or setting practical, evidence-based advice on all aspects of the disease, including its natural history, epidemiology, presentation, treatment, and prevention -- all in a format that synthesizes literature with the clinical experience of the leading authorities in this challenging field. As the need for childhood tuberculosis services in child health programs grows, this handbook provides a new benchmark for practitioners and trainees in pediatrics, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine, and public health to better understand this persisting and difficult disease.

Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis

Author: Jeffrey R. Starke

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-06

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0190695315

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The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis is a state-of-the-art clinical reference written and edited by the world's leading experts in childhood tuberculosis. It offers clinicians in any geography or setting practical, evidence-based advice on all aspects of the disease, including its natural history, epidemiology, presentation, treatment, and prevention -- all in a format that synthesizes literature with the clinical experience of the leading authorities in this challenging field.

WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 5
WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 5

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2022-03-21

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9240046836

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The aim of this operational handbook is to provide practical guidance on the implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) policy recommendations on the prevention and management of TB in children and adolescents under programmatic circumstances and at different levels of the health system. The practical guidance aims to inform the development or revision of national policies and related implementation guidance (e.g. handbooks, standard operating procedures) on the management of TB in children and adolescents. This handbook can also help countries adequately plan for the uptake of interventions to better address the specific needs of children and adolescents with or at risk of TB. It can contribute to national efforts to build capacity among national and subnational programme managers and among health workers at all levels of the health care system. The target audience for this handbook includes NTPs and other child health programmes that provide care for children with or at risk of TB, including maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programmes, HIV services, and PHC programmes. The handbook also targets paediatricians and other health care workers (HCWs) in the public and private sectors, school health services, civil society and community-based organizations, and health care educators.

Practical manual of processing stool samples for diagnosis of childhood TB
Practical manual of processing stool samples for diagnosis of childhood TB

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Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2022-04-28

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9240042652

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This practical manual aims to help countries implement stool testing into their TB diagnostic and clinical practice. It provides available evidence and incorporates recommendations on the use of stool as a sample type to diagnose TB. The target audience is staff at national TB programmes and TB laboratories and other health authorities and partners.

Rapid communication on updated guidance on the management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents
Rapid communication on updated guidance on the management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents

Author:

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2021-08-23

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 9240033459

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This rapid communication outlines the main outcomes of a WHO- convened Guideline Development Group (GDG) meeting, held in May-June 2021 on the topic of the management of TB in children and adolescents. The rapid communication aims to inform staff from ministries of health, technical partners and other stakeholders about the key findings, considerations and changes related to the diagnosis, treatment and care of TB for children and adolescents, in order to allow for planning at the country level ahead of the release of updated guidelines and an associated operational handbook. WHO will publish the guidelines and operational handbook by the end of 2021.

The Challenge of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century
The Challenge of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century

Author: Alberto L. García-Basteiro

Publisher: European Respiratory Society

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1849841705

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Recent years have witnessed key developments in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. Alongside this, and running in direct opposition to this progress, was the COVID-19 pandemic, which had an unprecedented detrimental effect on tuberculosis control and the achievement of targets set by the End TB Strategy. This timely and important Monograph provides a crucial update on recent changes, developments and setbacks in the field, and calls for a re-commitment to the achievement of the End TB Strategy and Sustainable Development Goals. Written by authors from across the world, the Monograph covers: diagnosis; advances in treatment; prevention; and tuberculosis control challenges in different populations and contexts.

Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes on the Management of Tuberculosis in Children
Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes on the Management of Tuberculosis in Children

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789241548748

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It is estimated that one third of the world's population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB)), and that each year, about 9 million people develop TB, of whom about 2 million die. Of the 9 million annual TB cases, about 1 million (11%) occur in children (under 15 years of age). Of these childhood cases, 75% occur annually in 22 high-burden countries that together account for 80% of the world's estimated incident cases. In countries worldwide, the reported percentage of all TB cases occurring in children varies from 3% to more than 25%. The Stop TB Strategy, which builds on the DOTS strategy developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease, has a critical role in reducing the worldwide burden of disease and thus in protecting children from infection and disease. The management of children with TB should be in line with the Stop TB Strategy, taking into consideration the particular epidemiology and clinical presentation of TB in children. These consensus guidelines were produced to help the National Tuberculosis Programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children.