Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Community Research Advisors Group (CRAG) released the TB Representative Studies Rubric (TB RSR), a new tool that community advisory boards (CABs) can use when designing and reviewing clinical trials protocols. The TB RSR is a 17-item questionnaire that assesses whether TB treatment trials include the types of people who get TB. By documenting the representativeness of TB studies, community advisors and researchers can work together to ensure that all people in need of safe and effective options for treating and preventing TB can benefit from research.
The TB RSR is available for download in two formats: 1) as an interactive form that users can complete digitally and 2) as a simple PDF that can be downloaded and printed.
CRAG is the community advisory body to a major international TB clinical trials network. CRAG developed the TB RSR by adapting an earlier tool created by the Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination (HANC) for HIV clinical trials.
Access the TB RSR here.
For more TB updates, check out the TB CAB Weekly Newsletter (Issue #28, 21 September 2025).
The newsletter is brought to you by the Global TB Community Advisory Board (TB CAB) with the support of Treatment Action Group (TAG) and EATG. Subscribe to the newsletter here.
Source : Treatment Action Group
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