Accelerating research to end tuberculosis in pregnant and lactating women: a call to action

This call to action accompanies the consensus statement on the optimal and early inclusion of pregnant and lactating women in tuberculosis research and specifies the actions that need to be taken to ensure full implementation of the agreed approaches in the statement.  

The target audience includes product developers and industry, study sponsors, funding agencies, researchers and research networks, regulatory authorities, institutional review boards (IRBs) and ethics committees, national TB and maternal and child health programmes, civil society organizations and affected communities, and health care providers.