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Guidelines for intensified tuberculosis case-finding and isoniazid preventive therapy for people living with HIV in resource-constrained settings

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Authors:
WHO Department of HIV/AIDS; Stop TB Department

The guidelines show how people with HIV can be protected from tuberculosis with regular, low-cost preventive medication. The guidelines present a set of recommendations that will help reduce TB disease in people living with HIV, their families and communities through a combination of screening for TB and provision of IPT. Target audience: health-care workers providing care for people living with HIV, policy-makers and health programme managers working in the field of HIV /AIDS and TB