Bibliographic Info
GuidelineGuidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children
Year of Publication2014
Issuing InstitutionWHO
Recommendation
Status
Updated
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Low
Children living with HIV who are more than 12 months of age and who are unlikely to have TB disease on symptom-based screening and who have no contact with a TB case: might be offered 6 months of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) (10 mg/kg per day, range 7–15 mg/kg, maximum dose 300 mg/day) as part of a comprehensive package of HIV prevention and care services if living in settings with a medium or low TB prevalence