Consolidated guidance on tuberculosis data generation and use: module 1: tuberculosis surveillance
Übersicht
Since 1995, WHO has ensured a consistent approach to national, regional and global TB surveillance by providing standardized definitions, forms and registers for the recording and reporting of individual-level and aggregated data about people diagnosed with and treated for TB, which are used worldwide. This standardization has facilitated the regular reporting of TB data to WHO from 215 countries and areas in annual rounds of global TB data collection, with findings published in an annual WHO global TB report since 1997 and data made publicly available via the online WHO global TB database.
The goal of this 2024 edition of WHO guidance on TB surveillance (following the last major update published in 2013) is to ensure the continued worldwide standardization of TB surveillance, in the context of the WHO End TB Strategy, the latest WHO guidelines on TB screening, prevention, diagnosis and treatment, and commitments made at the 2023 UN high-level meeting on TB, while also promoting the establishment or strengthening of digital, case-based TB surveillance that is integrated within the overall public health architecture.
This 2024 edition provides a comprehensive and consolidated package, bringing together both updated guidance as well as (within web annexes) closely related WHO products, tools and documentation related to TB surveillance. The web annexes (and associated links to them) are listed below.
The package was informed by (and includes a summary of) lessons learned about TB surveillance during more than 100 national TB epidemiological reviews conducted since 2013.
A slide-set that provides an overview of the key content of the guidance is available here.
- Web Annex A: commonly observed problems and associated solutions
- Web Annex B: standards and benchmarks for tuberculosis surveillance and vital registration systems: checklist, 2nd ed
- Web Annex C: Record-linkage exercises
- Web Annex D: Reporting of aggregated data and calculation of core indicators: templates and formulae
- Web Annex E: Examples of how to report diagnosis, start of treatment and treatment outcomes
- Web Annex F: Evaluation of the WHO DHIS2 case-based package for tuberculosis surveillance (TB tracker) in five pilot countries: summary of key findings
