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.
Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme
Prise en charge Intégrée des maladies de l’adolescent
et de l’adulte (PCIMAA)
Avril 2007
WHO/HTM/VIH/2007.01
WHO/HTM/TB/2007.380
Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness (IMAI)
July 2008
The goal of this addendum is to help management and staff
minimize the risk of TB transmission at facilities in resource limited settings in which a.) HIV-infected persons receive diagnosis, care, treatment,
and/or support, and b.) there is a high prevalence of HIV infection, both known
and... undiagnosed, in settings such as prisons, jails, other
detention centers, and drug rehabilitation centers.
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