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Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents for health care workers
The Defeat NCD Partnership
Background
This e-course gives practical guidance on key elements of the management of TB in children and adolescents. The role of health care workers in preventing, identifying and managing TB in children and adolescents is critical.
Approximate course duration: 2.5 hours
You will receive a Confirmation of Participation upon completing all the modules in this course. Please note that this award does not serve as a professional qualification.
Event Objectives
- Explain the principles of, and reasons for, screening for TB as part of primary care for children and adolescents in TB-endemic settings;
- Describe the steps in a management or “treatment decision” approach that are important to consider in all children who may require treatment for TB;
- Describe how to make a clinical diagnosis of TB;
- Explain how to make a bacteriological confirmation of TB using molecular WHO-recommended rapid diagnostic tests;
- List and apply the regimens used to treat TB disease or TB infection in children and adolescents;
- Determine eligibility for the 4-month treatment regimen for children and adolescents with non-severe TB;
- Initiate treatment using correct dosages and formulations (and provide education, counselling and treatment support);
- Explain the different TB registers used along the cascade of care for children and adolescents;
- Describe the main programmatic indicators for monitoring the provision of TB care and TB preventive treatment.
Targeted Audience
This e-learning course was developed for health care workers at primary health care level. It is assumed that you have experience of working in a TB programme at health-facility level.
Additional Information
Guidance note
The content of this course has been validated, verified, and is owned by the WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme. This course is not a WHO Academy co-produced course. In case of any concerns or feedback on the course content, please share your feedback in the survey form at the end of this course.
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Produced by: WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme.