TB Infection Control

Discussion Brief

Especially relevant to community-based tuberculosis programs with patients in with single-room homes, this discussion covers a range of interventions to reduce risk of transmission between start of treatment and sputum culture conversion and highlights the need for new approaches for MDR and XDR cases in cold climate areas where home ventilation is very difficult (because of heat loss).

A number of common sense approaches have been advocated, although like most infection control interventions, high-level proof of efficacy is generally lacking.
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• TB Infection Control community Fliers (En/Ru/Fr/Es)
• What we can do to stop TB in our lifetime?
• Standards for TB Infection Control: National VS Local Prioritization
• Summary of the 2009 WHO TB infection control policy
• TB-Infection Control: International Consultants’ Training Course

• Community update and introductions
• Cross-Post: MDR TB community infection control (outside of health units/households) after sputum conversion
• MDR TB community infection control (outside of health units/households) after sputum conversion
• Disposal of sputum for home infection control in MDR TB treatment
• Reliability and value Xpert/MBT/Rif for the TB patients have already being underwent by TB treatment