The Principles course held in Zimbabwe continues to provide the epidemiological, bacteriological, clinical and programmatic inputs that health professionals need to understand the principles of TB care and prevention and the skills to manage patients with both drug-susceptible and –resistant tuberculosis. This course has a strong focus on the collection, analysis and use of routinely available tuberculosis data for decision making at all levels of healthcare.

This course is designed for doctors and specialists, medical and clinical officers, nurses, laboratory technicians, tuberculosis coordinators working at all levels of healthcare, monitoring and evaluation officers, TB and HIV/AIDS, and non-communicable diseases and tobacco control programme staff and health policy and decision makers, who are primarily working in low- and middle-income countries.