The Tuberculosis Knowledge Programme is a Department for International Development (DFID) funded programme based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in collaboration with the Nuffield Institute. It is a multidisciplinary medical research project focusing on seven major areas:
- Understanding the social, economic and cultural influences on access to service for TB and adherence to treatment
- Developing and testing affordable approaches to improving the speed and accuracy of diagnosis
- Testing new strategies to improve coverage and treatment outcomes
- Evaluating ways to promote synergy between services for TB and HIV
- Exploring approaches to reducing the threat of multi-drug resistant TB
- Understanding the impact on disease control programmes of different approaches to Health sector reform
- Policy transfer.
WWW sites provides information on the Programme’s research projects, staff profiles, links to related sites, a list of publications, some of which are available online, and general information on the Programme.