Since 2009, WHO has produced tuberculosis (TB) guidelines using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation method. The WHO Global TB Programme has consolidated its TB guidelines into a modular series, including access to a recommendation map, focused on online access in contrast to paper documents. Evidence-based guidance across the continuum of care is instrumental to the global drive to end TB, a leading infectious disease cause of death in the world today despite being largely preventable and curable. This is enshrined in the WHO End TB Strategy for 2016-2035 endorsed by all Member States. Efforts to keep consolidated guidelines updated as “living guidelines” are important for WHO so that practice is based on the best available, latest evidence.

This online course explains how TB guidelines are developed by WHO, how the GRADE approach relates to TB guidelines, how to interpret the certainty of evidence and strength of recommendations, how WHO TB guidelines can be accessed, and how guidelines can be adapted to the local context.

The target audience for these training modules include personnel involved in the public health response to TB, including clinicians and other healthcare professionals, public health officials, programme managers, academics as well as other interested learners including the public.