Retooling National TB Control Programmes (NTPs) with New Diagnostics : The NTP Perspective

BACKGROUND: A delay is evident between the development of new policies on TB diagnostics and their implementation at country level. The Stop TB Partnership would benefit from information from national TB program (NTP) managers on progress towards implementation of new recommendations as well as the...

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Main Authors:	van Kampen, S. C., Ramsay, A. R., Anthony, R. M., Klatser, P. R.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Disease Management Humans Tuberculosis World Health Organization
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5138

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spelling	okr-10986-51382021-04-23T14:02:21Z Retooling National TB Control Programmes (NTPs) with New Diagnostics : The NTP Perspective van Kampen, S. C. Ramsay, A. R. Anthony, R. M. Klatser, P. R. Disease Management Humans Tuberculosis World Health Organization BACKGROUND: A delay is evident between the development of new policies on TB diagnostics and their implementation at country level. The Stop TB Partnership would benefit from information from national TB program (NTP) managers on progress towards implementation of new recommendations as well as the opportunities and challenges encountered in the process. METHODS AND FINDINGS: To solicit information on the introduction of new TB diagnostics at country level, questionnaires were sent out to NTP managers of high-burden TB countries and a subset of managers was interviewed. The results indicate that about 50% of high-burden TB countries are using the TB diagnostic tools newly recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Most NTP managers reported that new diagnostics would only be implemented when officially endorsed by the WHO. All countries have plans to adopt newly endorsed diagnostics at reference laboratory level, while approaches to optimize smear microscopy at lower levels of the health service are given less attention. NTP managers reported diverse challenges to the implementation of new diagnostics. CONCLUSIONS: More information on the obstacles and advantages of introducing new diagnostic tools should be provided to NTP managers to ensure the rational adoption of new diagnostics. A single recommendation covering the introduction of a package of diagnostic tools might be preferable to NTP managers and facilitate implementation in high-burden TB countries. 2012-03-30T07:31:30Z 2012-03-30T07:31:30Z 2010 Journal Article Plos One 1932-6203 (Electronic) 1932-6203 (Linking) http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5138 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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spellingShingle	Disease Management Humans Tuberculosis World Health Organization van Kampen, S. C. Ramsay, A. R. Anthony, R. M. Klatser, P. R. Retooling National TB Control Programmes (NTPs) with New Diagnostics : The NTP Perspective
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description	BACKGROUND: A delay is evident between the development of new policies on TB diagnostics and their implementation at country level. The Stop TB Partnership would benefit from information from national TB program (NTP) managers on progress towards implementation of new recommendations as well as the opportunities and challenges encountered in the process. METHODS AND FINDINGS: To solicit information on the introduction of new TB diagnostics at country level, questionnaires were sent out to NTP managers of high-burden TB countries and a subset of managers was interviewed. The results indicate that about 50% of high-burden TB countries are using the TB diagnostic tools newly recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Most NTP managers reported that new diagnostics would only be implemented when officially endorsed by the WHO. All countries have plans to adopt newly endorsed diagnostics at reference laboratory level, while approaches to optimize smear microscopy at lower levels of the health service are given less attention. NTP managers reported diverse challenges to the implementation of new diagnostics. CONCLUSIONS: More information on the obstacles and advantages of introducing new diagnostic tools should be provided to NTP managers to ensure the rational adoption of new diagnostics. A single recommendation covering the introduction of a package of diagnostic tools might be preferable to NTP managers and facilitate implementation in high-burden TB countries.
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author	van Kampen, S. C. Ramsay, A. R. Anthony, R. M. Klatser, P. R.
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title	Retooling National TB Control Programmes (NTPs) with New Diagnostics : The NTP Perspective
title_short	Retooling National TB Control Programmes (NTPs) with New Diagnostics : The NTP Perspective
title_full	Retooling National TB Control Programmes (NTPs) with New Diagnostics : The NTP Perspective
title_fullStr	Retooling National TB Control Programmes (NTPs) with New Diagnostics : The NTP Perspective
title_full_unstemmed	Retooling National TB Control Programmes (NTPs) with New Diagnostics : The NTP Perspective
title_sort	retooling national tb control programmes (ntps) with new diagnostics : the ntp perspective
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Retooling National TB Control Programmes (NTPs) with New Diagnostics : The NTP Perspective

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