FIND Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
GDP gross domestic product
GHE government health expenditures
HBC high-burden country
HIV human immune-deficiency virus
HVTN HIV Vaccine Trials Network
IDRI Infectious Disease Research Institute
IGRA interferon gamma release assays
IMPAACT International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent
AIDS Clinical Trials Group
IPT isoniazid preventive therapy
LED light-emitting diode microscopy
LF-LAM urine lateral flow lipoarabinomannan
LPA line probe assay
LTBI latent TB infection
MDGs Millennium Development Goals
MDR-TB multidrug-resistant TB
NAAT nucleic acid amplification test
NHA National Health Account
NHI national health insurance
NIAID US National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases
NRL national reference laboratory
NTP national TB programme
OBR optimized background regimen
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development
OOP out-of-pocket
PK pharmacokinetic
PMDT programmatic management of drugresistant
TB
PPM public-private mix
RNTCP Revised National Tuberculosis Control
Programme (India)
RR-TB rifampicin-resistant TB
SDGs Sustainable Development Goals
SMS short messaging services
SRL Supranational Reference Laboratory
SRL-CE SRL National Centres of Excellence
TAG Treatment Action Group
TB tuberculosis
TBTC TB Trial Consortium
TBVI Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative
TPP target product profile
TST tuberculin skin test
UHC universal health coverage
UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/
AIDS
USAID US Agency for International Development
VR vital registration
WHA World Health Assembly
WHO World Health Organization
XDR-TB extensively drug-resistant TB
ZN Ziehl-Neelsen