Overview
The Roadmap towards ending TB among children and adolescents, third edition builds on the 2013 and 2018 versions. The 2023 version recognizes the progress made over the past five years and outlines priorities and key actions designed to accelerate progress towards the targets elaborated during the 2023 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on the fight against TB. Implementation of these key actions at the global, regional, national and sub-national levels is expected to find and treat more children and adolescents with tuberculosis (TB) disease or TB infection, to prevent TB, to improve treatment outcomes and prevent TB-associated disability. The 2023 Roadmap retains the strong focus on TB in children, while also emphasizing the importance of addressing TB among adolescents, and for the first time, among pregnant and post-partum women.
The third edition is aligned with the 2022 WHO consolidated guidelines and operational handbook on the management of TB in children and adolescents. Its development has benefitted from significant technical inputs by the core team of the Child and Adolescent TB Working Group throughout the process, and from additional inputs from the working group members and country representatives during a stakeholder consultation. WHO will continue to collaborate with TB survivors, community, civil society, technical and financial partners to advocate and facilitate implementation of the key actions as included in the 2023 Roadmap.
