Bibliographic Info
Recommendation
Recommended in favor
Strong
Certainty of evidence
Moderate
Adults and adolescents living with HIV should be screened for TB according to a clinical algorithm. Those who do not report any of the symptoms of current cough, fever, weight loss or night sweats are unlikely to have TB disease. Those who report any of these symptoms may have TB, should be evaluated for TB disease and other diseases and should be offered TB preventive treatment if TB disease is excluded, regardless of their antiretroviral treatment status
Also Featured In
This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
Latent tuberculosis infection: updated and consolidated guidelines for programmatic management
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: tuberculosis preventive treatment: Module 1: prevention
Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery and monitoring: recommendations for a public health approach
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 5: management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents.