DOTS-Plus and Green Light Committee

Author: World Health Organization

Publication Date: 2000

Format: Booklet

Language: English

Abstract

This booklet explains the relationship between MDR-TB, DOTS, and DOTS-Plus and how projects can become a DOTS-Plus pilot project that can benefit from concessionary prices negotiated for second-line anti-TB drugs by the Working Group.

Publisher:

World Health Organization

Audience(s):

Health Professionals, Managers and Supervisors

Topic:

MDR TB, Partnership Building, Treatment- Directly Observed Therapy (DOT)

Notes:

Copyrighted. For WHO copyright policy, please refer to www.who.int/about/copyright/en. For further information on DOTS-Plus for MDR-TB and the Green Light Committee contact: Department of Control, Prevention and Eradication, Communicable Disease Programme, World Health Organization; 20, avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27; Tel: +(41) 22 791 2708/3224; Fax: +(41) 22 791 4268; Website: www.who.int/gtb/policyrd/DOTSplus.htm.

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