{"tags": [{"id": 10, "search": null, "name": "TB", "code": ""}], "categories": [{"hasContent": true, "id": 11, "search": null, "name": "Communicable diseases and their Control", "code": "170"}], "versions": [{"publisher": {"id": 1, "search": null, "name": "Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation", "contact": ""}, "authors": [{"id": 1, "search": null, "name": "Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation", "contact": ""}], "collaborators": [{"id": 209, "search": null, "name": "GFATM", "contact": ""}, {"id": 67, "search": null, "name": "Kenyatta National Hospital", "contact": ""}], "fileUrl": "media/Kenya_MDR_TB_GUIDELINE_2010.pdf", "id": 112, "search": null, "name": "Guidelines for the management of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Kenya", "description": "", "edition": "First", "state": "CURRENT", "upload": "./Kenya_MDR_TB_GUIDELINE_2010.pdf", "datePublished": "2010-03-01"}], "relatedGuidelines": [{"summary": "This PPM Action Plan 2021-2023 provides a guide on strengthening and expanding meaningful engagement and participation of the private sector in the fight against TB. ", "id": 312, "categories": [11, 12, 23], "name": "Public-Private Mix Action Plan 2021-2023\r\n"}, {"summary": "This is a clinical protocol highlighting the 6 steps of routine HIV testing and counselling for clients with TB; to be used by health workers for patients seeking HIV testing and counselling.", "id": 13, "categories": [4, 11], "name": "Routine HIV Testing and Counselling(DTC) in TB Clinical Settings Protocol"}, {"summary": "A guideline to be used by health care workers for implementation of TB/HIV collaborative activities. Necessitated  by the fact that this is a new area of intervention that need clear and concise guidelines so that implementation of activities in the whole country can be well coordinated.\r\n", "id": 3, "categories": [4, 11], "name": "Guidelines for implementing TB-HIV collaborative activities in Kenya : what health care workers need to  know"}, {"summary": "These guidelines provide technical reference material to be used by all health care workers involved in TB and Leprosy care and can also be used for training of health care workers in conjunction with other training materials.  The Leprosy sections have the secondary goal of addressing the loss of skills and knowledge by health care providers to suspect and diagnose leprosy owing to the reduction in number of cases seen over time.\r\n\r\n", "id": 2, "categories": [11], "name": "Guidelines for Management of Tuberculosis and Leprosy in Kenya"}, {"summary": "This is a chart showing an algorithm for the diagnosis of all forms of tuberculosis", "id": 165, "categories": [11], "name": "Gene Expert Algorithm"}, {"summary": "The primary audiences for this document are the health care providers in health care facilities and community settings. This document focuses on health care settings, as well as other areas where TB transmission is likely to occur such as Prisons, informal settlements, networks of people living withHIV and AIDS and mental health institutions.\r\n", "id": 6, "categories": [11], "name": "Guidelines for TB infection  prevention and control for health care workers in Kenya"}, {"summary": "This guideline offers updated recommendations for programmatic management of drug resistant TB(PMDT) . They are designed to be used by TB control program officers, medical practitioners and other personnel involved in TB control in Kenya in addition to other TB training materials to enable comprehensive care to TB patients including MDR TB patients.", "id": 8, "categories": [11], "name": "Programmatic management of drug resistant tuberculosis(PMDT)-Kenya"}, {"summary": "The guideline is specifically designed for general health care workers\u2019 readership and is therefore expected to stimulate interest in pediatric TB treatment and how to protect the children from getting infected. This guideline will also act as a reference material for medical students, researchers and the community.\r\n", "id": 10, "categories": [11], "name": "National Guidelines on Management of Tuberculosis in Children"}], "lastUpdated": "", "id": 113, "search": null, "name": "Guidelines for the management of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Kenya", "summary": "These guidelines provide a new milestone for the ministry and DLTLD towards achieving internationally agreed TB control targets, relevant Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and provision of universally acceptable standards of TB care. Are  are to be used as technical reference material by health care workers involved in TB care and for training of health care workers in addition to other TB training materials to enable comprehensive care to TB patients.", "description": "Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Kenya. It affects all age groups but has its greatest toll in the most productive age group of 15 to 45 years. The major factor responsible for the large TB disease burden is the current HIV epidemic. Other factors that have contributed to this large TB disease burden include poverty and social deprivation that has led to mushrooming of peri-urban slums and congestion. Although TB cases notified in the country has stagnated recently, a new challenge of resistant strains of TB is gradually but surely increasing and in particular MDR TB. \r\n\r\nThis new challenge threatens to reverse gains made in the fight against TB in Kenya. Drug Resistant TB (DRTB) is occasioned by development of resistance by the TB bacilli to first line drugs, a result of use of inadequate TB treatment regimes, inadequate adherence on the part of the patients or poor monitoring of TB treatment. In order to address this challenge, the ministry is working with development partners and has specifically initiated a DRTB treatment project through DLTLD. Treatment centres have been established at Kenyatta National Hospital, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and Homa Bay Sub District Hopital where patients will be admitted during the intensive phase of treatment. An aggressive health care workers training program has been launched to transfer necessary skills to capacitate health care workers to cope with the new demands. Other regional DR TB centers are being set up with focus on areas with high volume drug resistant patients especially at Coast, Nyanza, Rift Valley and North Eastern.", "guidelineType": "CLINICAL", "datePublished": "2010-03-01"}