1.4 Objectives

The overall goal of the TB/HIV guidelines is to reduce suffering and death due to TB and HIV, in alignment with the WHO End TB strategy (3), the Global health sector strategies on, respectively, HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections for the period 2022–2030 (27), the Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026 (28), the political declaration of the UN High-Level meeting on the fight against TB 2023 (29) and the UN High-Level Meeting on AIDS 2021 (5).

The specific objectives of the TB/HIV guidelines are to:

  1. reduce the burden of TB among people living with HIV, by facilitating the uptake of WHO recommendations on TB prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment and care; and
  2. reduce the burden of HIV among people with TB, by facilitating the uptake of WHO recommendations on HIV prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment and care.
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