Tuberculosis (TB): migrant health guide
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Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Main messages
- Background
- The disease
- Epidemiology
- TB in migrant populations
- TB screening in migrants
- Screening for active TB in UK migrants
- Pre-entry TB screening - migrants arriving in the UK via formal visa routes
- Active TB disease screening - migrants arriving by unofficial routes
- Active TB disease screening - migrants arriving by specific resettlement, relocation and humanitarian assistance migration pathways
- Latent TB infection (LTBI) screening
- LTBI testing and treatment
- HIV and TB testing
- Treatment
- Prevention and control
- Resources
Source and licence
UK Health Security Agency
AttributionUK Health Security Agency, ‘Tuberculosis (TB): migrant health guide’ (updated 31 March 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026