Developed as part of the work of the Global Task Force on Tuberculosis (TB) Impact Measurement, WHO recently published the "Standards and benchmarks for tuberculosis surveillance and vital registration systems. Checklist and user guide".
One of the Task Force’s 3 major strategic areas of work is strengthening TB surveillance, and the development of the checklist and accompanying user guide were top priorities of the Task Force from 2011-2013. It is hoped that the publication will help to provide a foundation for strengthening measurement of the level of and trends in TB disease burden using routine surveillance data from notification and vital registration systems in many countries.
Source: WHO