The WHO have consolidated two TPPs for TB diagnostics: a newly updated TPP for a rapid test for TB detection and a TPP released in 2021 on next-generation DST for M. tuberculosis.
The updated and consolidated TPPs introduces, for the first time, definitions of classes of point-of-care (POC) tests and near-POC tests, and it relates these to the class of low-complexity diagnostic technologies currently recommended.
The document can be downloaded here.
