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Publications

Anti-tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World. Report no. 2: Prevalence and Trends Provides results of the survey conducted in 58 different countries geographical settings, between 1996and 1999 by WHO and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Global Project. The aim of the Project is to collect standardized, reliable and comparable worldwide information on drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Guidelines for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis. WHO and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

Proposes a standard tool for tuberculosis control programmes to implement and improve the performance of anti-TB drug resistance surveillance and drug sensitivity testing.

• Part I: definitions, laboratories/diagnostic centres, sampling strategies
  pdf, 1.28Mb
• Part II: organization/survey outline, intake of patients, national reference lab, data analysis
  pdf, 1.44Mb
• Annexes
  pdf, 801kb

Links

• WHO's activities in tuberculosis strategy operations, monitoring evaluation
• WHO's recommended strategy for multi-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
• Stop TB Partnership
  The Partnership involves all those organizations and individuals committed to short-and long-term measures required to control and eventually eliminate TB as a public health problem in the world. Several coalitions of partners (Working Groups) have emerged to accelerate progress in specific areas, including DOTS expansion, new TB drug development, and containment of MDR-TB emergencies.
• Global Drug Facility
  An initiative of the The Stop TB Partnership, the Global TB Drug Facility is a mechanism to expand access to, and availability of, high-quality TB drugs to facilitate global DOTS expansion.
• International Union Against TB and Lung Disease
  More than 140 partners in this union to fight TB and lung disease.

Software

• Surveillance of Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis (SDRTB4) software
  A software designed to assist the process of collection and analysis of data on drug resistance in tuberculosis.