Tuberculosis Care with TB-HIV Co-management: Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness

This guideline module is for use in caring for patients with TB disease at first-level health facilities (health centres and the clinical team in district outpatient clinics) in countries with high burden of HIV. It addresses the care of both HIV-positive and HIV-negative patients with TB disease.

It is based on the STB training course and reference booklet Management of Tuberculosis: Training for Health Facility Staff WHO/CDS/TB/203.a-l and the following WHO normative guidelines issued in 2006: Antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection in adults and adolescents: Recommendations for a public health approach; Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children; and Tuberculosis infection control in the era of expanding HIV care and treatment: Addendum to "WHO guidelines for the prevention of tuberculosis in health care facilities in resource-limited settings", 1999.