WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis: module 1: prevention: tuberculosis preventive treatment

This operational handbook lays down key implementation considerations and steps in the programmatic scale-up of TPT and provides implementation tools and job-aids for adaptation to the local context, and monitoring and evaluation indicators for PMTPT. It highlights key elements to consider in patient care, national strategic planning, and resource mobilization. Although the handbook focuses on settings with a high TB and HIV burden, implementation considerations may apply also to low TB burden settings. This handbook is intended to guide policy-makers within the ministries of health and other institutions, and stakeholders that have an impact on health, including HIV and TB program managers at national, subnational and district levels; health care workers and staff of development and technical agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) as well as civil society and community-based organizations involved in supporting TPT services.