HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice No.202
Testing and diagnosis of hepatitis B (HBV) and C (HCV) infection is the gateway for access to both prevention and treatment services, and is a crucial component of an effective response to the hepatitis epidemic. Early identification of persons with chronic HBV or HCV infection enables them to recei...ve the necessary care and treatment to prevent or delay progression of liver disease. Testing also provides an opportunity to link people to interventions to reduce transmission, through counselling on risk behaviours and provision of prevention commodities (such as sterile needles and syringes) and hepatitis B vaccination.
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Child Survival Working Group
Accessed: 26.10.2019
Facilitator's Guide. This guide is designed to assist facilitators in training community health workers (CHWs) and community volunteers (CVs) in integrating community-based TB services into their work. The training will help community workers who already provide numerous services to understand TB an...d contribute to prevention, care and support services in their communities
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Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá 2 y 3 de marzo, 2010
Consolidated Guidelines
Geneva, 2016
The End TB Strategy
National AIDS and STI Control Program
Public Health Action PHA 2017; 7(2): 110–115
This guide is a resource for physicians and other health care professionals who provide care and treatment to patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis.
These policy guidelines provide a strategic approach and new recommendations for integrated TB and HIV services for patients suffering from substance-abuse addiction. The key recommendations fall under three main categories: joint planning, key interventions, and overcoming barriers.
Guidelines
HIV testing services
July 2015
MEDBOX Issue Brief no. 19: World TB Day: Invest to end TB. Save Lives