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A revised framework to address TB-HIV co-infection in the Western Pacific Region.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- World Health Organization.
- Series:
- Euro Nonserial Publication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tuberculosis--Pacific Area.
- Tuberculosis.
- AIDS (Disease)--Pacific Area.
- AIDS (Disease).
- HIV infections--Pacific Area.
- HIV infections.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (92 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This document is a revision of the regional TB-HIV framework published in 2004. The revised framework provides guidance to countries in the Western Pacific Region to step up implementation of TB-HIV collaborative activities. It recommends that all people living with HIV-AIDS should be screened for TB as part of their routine care, and similarly, all patients with TB should be tested for HIV infection in TB facilities, in both instances at the point of care. This is to avoid delays in TB and HIV diagnosis, and consequently preventing unnecessary deaths, and prevent exposure of people with HIV/
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CONTENTS; TABLE OF CONTENTS; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 BACKGROUND; 3 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; 4 TB HIV SURVEILLANCE; 5 HIV TESTING IN TB PATIENT CARE SETTINGS; 6 INTENSIFIED TB CASE FINDING IN HIV CARE SETTINGS; 7 TREATMENT FOR PEOPLE WITH BOTH TB AND HIV; 8 TB INFECTION CONTROL; 9 TB HIV CO INFECTION IN CHILDREN; 10 MONITORING AND EVALUATION; 11 TB HIV IN CLOSED SETTINGS AND AMONG INJECTING DRUG USERS; 12 COMMUNITY LEVEL TB HIV COLLABORATION; 13 PRIORITIES FOR PROGRAMMATICALLY RELEVANT RESEARCH; ANNEX; REFERENCES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-77).
- ISBN:
- 9786612273865
- 92-9061-439-0
- 1-282-27386-8
- OCLC:
- 436917006
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