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The International Union against TB and Lung disease (The UNION) developed a guide for healthcare workers who are involved in detecting and caring for patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) in primary, community and acute (hospital) healthcare settings. This guidesupports the Global Plan’s emphasis on patientcentred, human-rights based care and offers a practical way of achieving this: Read The UNION Guide for Healthcare Workers
The guide is rooted in the idea that high-quality patient care is the key to improving TB programme outcomes, and this now extends to meeting the new people-centred targets as set out in the Global Plan to End TB: The Paradigm Shift 2016-20201 to “reach 90% of all people who need TB treatment, including 90% of people in key populations, and achieve at least 90% treatment success.”