An Activist's Guide to the TB LAM Test

Treatment Action Group
Sept. 13, 2017, 12:51 p.m.
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The guide provides important messaging and strategies to support advocacy and activism for access to LAM testing, the only point-of-care TB diagnostic test overall that has a proven impact on reducing TB deaths in people with HIV.

As TB has risen to become the leading infectious killer of people living with HIV (PLHIV), diagnostic tests such as the TB LAM test are critically important to ensure diagnosis of TB quickly for this vulnerable population. LAM represents the only current point-of-care TB diagnostic test overall, that is specifically used for detecting TB in PLHIV with low CD4 counts, and is the only test that has a proven impact on reducing TB deaths in people with HIV.

An Activist's Guide to the TB LAM Test provides important messaging and strategies to support in-country LAM advocacy and activism. Furthermore, this guide seeks to help advocates and activists ensure uptake of the test across a variety of key targets, including implementation by National AIDS and TB programmes, registration by regulatory authorities, to pressuring donors to push the use of LAM test among countries that are dually burdened by HIV and TB.

Download the guide here.


Source: Treatment Action Group