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Management of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis

The online course on Management of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis, together with the trainer resources, is designed to support healthcare providers in putting learning into practice. These materials help strengthen the management and care of children and adolescents with presumptive or confirmed TB, particularly in primary and secondary health care settings.

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The Union – Free Online Course on Developing a Research Grant Proposal

The Union is launching a brand-new course to empower researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

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Online course for interpretation of CXRs in children with presumptive TB

Available free of charge to all audiences

The course is based on the Union’s Diagnostic CXR Atlas for Tuberculosis in Children: a Guide to chest X-ray Interpretation (2nd edition, 2022), which provides pragmatic guidance to healthcare professionals working in child tuberculosis. We aim to narrow the detection-treatment gap and support improved interpretation in clinical practice.

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The Research Learning Lectures

Hosted by the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator (PI) Scheme

The Research Learning Lectures are a series of lectures for anyone in Health and Social Care interested in learning more about research, hosted by the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator (PI) Scheme.

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SHINE impact on clinical practice-Questionnaire 

The UCL Innovative Clinical Trials Unit (InCTU, formerly the MRC CTU at UCL) invites you to take part in a short, anonymous questionnaire on the uptake of a shorter treatment regimen for non-severe TB in children.  

More than one million children develop TB each year, with around two thirds affected by non-severe disease. Treatment shortening is a key priority within the End TB Strategy. In 2022, the SHINE trial showed that a four-month regimen is as effective as the standard six-month regimen for children with non-severe TB, leading to updated WHO recommendations. 

The questionnaire aims to: 

• Assess how widely the four-month regimen has been adopted worldwide 

• Understand current clinical practice across different settings 

• Identify barriers to implementing the shorter regimen 

The findings will help to identify gaps and inform efforts to support the integration of the four-month regimen into guidelines globally, as well as potentially inform a future implementation study.  

Results will be used for research purposes, and will be reported in an anonymised, aggregated form, and may be used for scientific publications.  

You can access the questionnaire here: https://forms.office.com/e/WMuWkzCuMx?origin=lprLink 

The questionnaire should take about ten minutes to complete and will remain open until the 1^st of August 2026.  

Please share this invitation with colleagues who look after children with TB. We would greatly appreciate your contribution!  

Thank you very much for your time and support.
The Communications and SHINE teams at the InCTU