Design and In-Country Evaluation of TB Diagnostic Laboratory Kits, 2004-2006

摘要

In 2003, the Global TB Drug Facility (GDF), as part of its mandate to contribute to DOTS expansion and at the request of several Stop TB partners, decided to formulate and develop diagnostic laboratory kits for tuberculosis (TB) that it could make available to countries with high TB prevalence. The work on development and formulation of the proposed kits began in March 2004, when an evaluation work team comprised of GDF staff supported by several staff members from Management Sciences for Health piloted and evaluated the kits in three countries--The Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, and Tajikistan--to enable the Stop TB Partnership secretariat and the GDF to decide whether to make these kits regularly available.