WHO technical guidance: Contact tracing and PEP

Experts and advisors associated with several ILEP members contributed to this newly released publication. It provides guidance on how to implement contact screening and chemoprophylaxis with single-dose rifampicin.

The contents are logically ordered: counselling and obtaining consent, identification and listing of index case, listing of contacts, tracing of contacts, screening of contacts, administration of prophylactic drugs. Managerial aspects to undertake contact screening and chemoprophylaxis are also elaborated, including planning, training, supervision and drug management.