Community-led Monitoring for Access to Tuberculosis Screening and Diagnostic Testing

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Community-led Monitoring for Access to Tuberculosis Screening and Diagnostic Testing , developed by the Coalition of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (COWLHA) in partnership with Treatment Action Group, is designed to equip communities to use community-lead monitoring (CLM) to better understand the TB screening and diagnostic services they receive; to identify gaps in the availability of tools, services, and care delivered; and to translate findings into evidence-based advocacy. It includes details about TB screening and diagnostic tools that should be available at different levels of the health system, as well as a downloadable CLM data collection tool. Because this CLM framework uses WHO recommendations as the benchmark for the TB standard of care, it can be easily adapted to different countries and settings.