National Tuberculosis (TB) Guidelines for Ireland 2024/2025

The New National Tuberculosis (TB) Guidelines for Ireland are currently being developed by an expert Guideline Development Group in collaboration with the Research and Guideline Development Unit (RGDU). 

Importantly for your urgent attention, some of the terminology for TB is changing in these new national guidelines. In the latest chapters, Latent TB is now known as ‘TB infection,’ while Active TB is referred to as ‘TB disease.’ These and any other changes to terminology within the chapters are in line with updated guidelines published by the World Health Organization (WHO.)

The new guidelines will be published by individual chapter, in a phased approach over the next few months, with much of the content planned for publication in the run up to World TB Day in 2025. This is to support clinicians having the most timely information for action, as quickly as it is available. The new content and recommendations will supersede that of the previous Guidelines on the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Ireland, 2010 - Amended 2014 as they are published. Currently, newly developed Chapter 4: Tuberculosis (TB) Disease (formerly Active TB) and Chapter 5: Treatment of Cases with Drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB) are available online.

Issues in relation to specific groups, e.g. underserved populations, will be dealt with at a later stage in the process.

**UNDER REVIEW** Guidelines on the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Ireland, 2010 - Amended 2014

The following Guidelines chapters are under review and will ultimately be superseded by the full revised and updated 2024/2025 Guidelines.