Bibliographic Info
Recommendation
Recommended in favor
Strong
Certainty of evidence
Moderate
Children living with HIV who are more than 12 months of age and who are unlikely to have active TB on symptom-based screening and have no contact with a TB case should receive 6 months of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) (10 mg/kg/day) as part of a comprehensive package of HIV prevention and care
Also Featured In
This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
WHO policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities : guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders
Guidelines for intensified tuberculosis case-finding and isoniazid preventive therapy for people living with HIV in resource-constrained settings
Consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection: recommendations for a public health approach
Latent tuberculosis infection: updated and consolidated guidelines for programmatic management