World Health Organization news release
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the second edition of its WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis. Module 3: Diagnosis, bringing together the latest evidence-based recommendations to help countries expand access to rapid, accurate and affordable TB testing.
Compared to the previous edition, the updated guidelines present new recommendations on a new near-point-of-care diagnostic class that enables diagnosis of TB at peripheral levels of the health system, tongue swabs as new sample types for TB that enable testing of people who are unable to produce sputum, and pooling of sputa as a new diagnostic strategy for diagnosis of TB and rifampicin resistance that improves efficiency while reduces costs for settings with exceptional resource constraints.
The updated consolidated guidelines are accompanied, for the first time, by a new living website. This resource presents WHO-recommended TB diagnostic classes and the products within each class for the diagnosis of TB, drug-resistant TB and TB infection, together with their respective WHO prequalification status.
Read the full news release here.
For more TB updates, check out the TB CAB Weekly Newsletter (Issue #30, 7 November 2026).
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Source : World Health Organization
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