From: TIME Impact – a new user-friendly tuberculosis (TB) model to inform TB policy decisions
Included |
• Demographic data and projections; UN Population Division |
• Global Tuberculosis Programme (GTB) estimates for incidence, prevalence, mortality, notifications; GTB |
• HIV burden and antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage; UNAIDS |
Required |
• Estimated number of individuals screened (preferably trends); National Tuberculosis Programmes (NTPs) |
• Diagnostic algorithms and coverage; NTP |
• Linkage to care (trends, by multidrug resistance (MDR)); NTP, literature (MDR, GTB) |
• Treatment success, by MDR (trends); GTB |
• Drug susceptibility testing coverage; GTB |
Desirable |
• Prevalence survey results; NTP |
• Drug resistance survey results; NTP |
• HIV prevalence + ART coverage (required if high HIV burden setting); GTB, NTP |
• Proportion of tuberculosis (TB) in children (<15 years old); NTP |
• Current coverage and efficacy of TB programme activities; NTP |
• Size of risk groups and TB prevalence; NTP |