The course is particularly relevant for laboratory experts who perform drug-susceptibility testing (DST) for TB and clinicians who use DST results in their routine clinical practice. We hope this training will help refine your practice, thereby strengthening the global capacity to diagnose DR-TB.

Addressing drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a global priority to accelerate progress towards the elimination of TB. In many countries, patients with DR-TB are either not diagnosed at all or receive a delayed diagnosis, leading to further spread and increased severity of the disease. WHO-endorsed rapid molecular tests have dramatically improved the speed and quality of diagnosis of DR-TB and should be adopted more widely, complemented with phenotypic alternatives where necessary.