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World Health Organization. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; United States. Agency for International Development.
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This third edition (referred to as the 2023 Roadmap) of the Roadmap towards ending TB among children and adolescents is an update to the 2013 and 2018 versions. The 2023 Roadmap recognizes the progress made over the past five years and outlines priorities and key actions designed to accelerate progress towards the targets elaborated during the 2023 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on the fight against TB. Implementation of these key actions at the global, regional, national and sub-national levels in the context of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is expected to find and treat more children and adolescents with tuberculosis (TB) disease or TB infection, to prevent TB, to improve treatment outcomes and prevent TB-associated disability.

The 2023 Roadmap retains the strong focus on TB in children, while also emphasizing the importance of addressing TB among adolescents, and for the first time, among pregnant and post-partum women. Adolescents also have high rates of TB and have specific age-related needs that should be considered to improve outcomes. The inclusion of pregnant and post-partum women reflects the heightened risk of TB disease in this group and the ability to improve the lives of mothers, their infants and other family members, by preventing or addressing TB.1 The 2023 Roadmap also recognizes the potential impact of climate change on poverty and diseases related to poverty – such as TB – and of possible future pandemics that may affect children and adolescents disproportionally, as was the case during the COVID-19 pandemic. Efforts to address pandemics and the health-related impacts of climate change need to consider these vulnerable populations.

The 2023 update of the Roadmap was funded by grants provided to WHO by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Suggested citation. Roadmap towards ending TB in children and adolescents, third edition. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2023. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.

ISBN 978-92-4-008425-4 (electronic version)

ISBN 978-92-4-008426-1 (print version)

9789240084254-eng.pdf


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Adolescent Child Population Surveillance Tuberculosis/prevention & Control
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