"We the people who bear the burden of TB disease, as members of civil society can play an important role in pushing for greater political will by creating a bottom up demand for TB new tools and partnering with our National TB Programs, the Stop TB Partnership, and the product developers to reduce barriers to the uptake of new tools."

Community/Patient representative and Community Treatment Activist
 
 

Checklist for key actions for the use of liquid culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST)
The Stop TB Partnership Task Force on Retooling has prepared the following checklist of key actions to facilitate global and country stakeholder planning for timely assessment, adoption, introduction, and implementation of the WHO recommendation, as appropriate. The guide illustrates actions that may be adapted to each country’s situation.

New Technologies for TB Control: A Framework for their Adoption, Introduction and Implementation

"This document and the hope it symbolizes is one that we stand behind to bring to improved methods of reducing the burden of TB and to ensure that no more of our brothers and sisters die of this curable disease."

Community/Patient representative and Community Treatment Activist

"This document provides a framework for ensuring that new tools, once available, can be expediently and efficiently adopted at both the global and country levels."

Irene Koek, Chair, Stop TB Partnership, Coordinating Board and Marcos Espinal, Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership Secretariat


Tools and guidance

documents

Checklist for key actions for the use of liquid culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST)

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Click here for the Word version
Engaging Stakeholders For Retooling TB Control
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New Technologies for TB Control: A Framework for their Adoption, Introduction and Implementation
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Weekly epidemiological record
Relevé épidémiologique hebdomadaire


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