Expert opinion of the European Tuberculosis Laboratory Initiative core group members for the WHO European Region.
This 2011 update of Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis is intended as a tool for use by public health professionals working in response
to the Sixty-second World Health Assembly’s resolution on prevention and control of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and e...xtensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.
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Eur Respir J 2014; 43: 24–35 | DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00113413
International Journal of Drug Policy 24 (2013) e91-98
The WHO standard: Universal access to rapid tuberculosis diagnostics sets benchmarks to achieve universal access to WHO-recommended rapid diagnostics (WRDs), increase bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis and drug resistance detection, and reduce the time to diagnosis. WHO-recommended rapid diagn...ostics are highly accurate, cost-effective, reduce the time to treatment initiation, and impact patient-important outcomes.
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European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care 2017 Estonian Version
European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care 2017 Update (Romanian Version)
2006-2008 programme report
National Tuberclosis and
Leprosy Programme (NTLP)