About the Authors: Grania Brigden * E-mail: grania.brigden@theunion.org Affiliation: Department of Tuberculosis, The International Union Against TB and Lung Disease, Geneva, Switzerland ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5184-4121 Nguyen Viet Nhung Affiliation: National Lung Hospital, Vietnam NTP, Vietnam Alena Skrahina Affiliation: Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and TB, Minsk, Belarus Norbert Ndjeka Affiliation: Drug-Resistant TB, TB and HIV directorate, National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa Dennis Falzon Affiliation: Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8798-7909 Matteo Zignol Affiliation: Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Introduction One of the key missions of national tuberculosis (TB) programmes (NTPs) is to issue policy and technical guidance for clinicians and healthcare workers involved in TB care at the country level. Translating research findings int...

Advances in clinical trial design for development of new TB treatments—Translating international tuberculosis treatment guidelines into national strategic plans: Experiences from Belarus, South Africa, and Vietnam

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