Updated Recommendation
A new evidence synthesis was published:2020, WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: tuberculosis preventive treatment: Module 1: prevention
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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:
Antiretroviral therapy of HIV infection in infants and children: towards universal access: recommendations for a public health approach 2010 revision
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
Latent tuberculosis infection: updated and consolidated guidelines for programmatic management