Many health programs can include the management of children with tuberculosis
HOW?
Current integration resources:
Future Resources (coming soon):
- Ask questions about possible TB disease in community health programs (include household contact tracing for TB in community health programs).
- Include TB in integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) programs. Community health workers can be trained to look for TB while they are trained to look for pneumonia, malaria, and diarrheal disease.
- Evaluate for TB during immunization visits. Ask about TB symptoms in the child and about possible TB in adults in the home.
- Evaluate mothers for TB during antenatal visits. Include prevention of TB as well as HIV prevention into care of pregnant mothers.
- Consider TB in the child in nutrition programs. Include screening for TB.
- Provide IPT (Isoniazid, or INH Preventive Therapy) to children with HIV infection. Evaluate all HIV infected children for TB.
IT WILL COST LESS THAN 3 CENTS A DAY FOR IPT (Isoniazid, or INH Preventive Therapy) AND LESS THAN 50 CENTS A DAY TO TREAT A CHILD FOR TB
Current integration resources:
- Prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis in children and mothers: evidence for action for maternal, neonatal, and child health services.
- Closing the policy-practice gap in the management of child contacts of tuberculosis cases in developing countries
Future Resources (coming soon):
- Roadmap for Children with TB by the UNION and the STOP TB Partnership
- New WHO Guidelines for management of children with Tuberculosis
- Integration Methods from the Child Survival Call to Action Meeting
Health care workers can screen for TB during immunization visits
Children can be evaluated for TB in nutrition programs
TB prevention can be included in antenatal and post-natal care for mothers