TB Education & Training Resources Website E-Newsletter
January 2009

Greetings!

Welcome to this month's e-newsletter for the TB Education & Training Resources Website (findtbresources.cdc.gov). The purpose of this monthly newsletter is to inform you about the featured Highlight of the Month, additional helpful resources in the database, and other updates to the website.

Highlight of the Month

This month's highlight is Tobacco Cessation Interventions for Tuberculosis Patients: A Guide for Low-Income Countries from the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union). This technical guide was written to provide assistance to health service providers caring for tuberculosis patients to help their patients to stop using tobacco. It starts with an overview of the

Tobacco Cessation Interventions for Tuberculosis Patients: A Guide for Low-Income Countries
relationship between tobacco smoking and TB and is followed by a general overview about tobacco use. The guide then looks at the topic of cessation interventions: how to create the correct environment, possible methods to follow, more intensive cognitive behavior strategies for patients, and suggested monitoring documents and procedures.

Do you have TB education or training materials you would like to share? You can submit materials to our database electronically! For more information, visit findtbresources.cdc.gov.

Additional Resources

Tuberculosis: Getting Healthy, Staying Healthy

Managing TB Medicines at the Primary Level

Tuberculosis: What You Need to Know

Tuberculosis: Getting Healthy, Staying Healthy, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (also available in Spanish).

Managing TB Medicines at the Primary Level, from the Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus Program, Management Sciences for Health (also available in French).

Tuberculosis: What You Need to Know, from the Chicago High Risk TB Project.

To find out how to order or view these materials, visit findtbresources.cdc.gov.

Remember to...

1) Explore
The website includes a searchable database of TB education and training resources. You can search for materials by fields such as format and language.

You can also submit your materials, and much more!

 

2) Bookmark
Add it to your Internet Favorites list so you can easily return to the site.

3) Tell others
If the website has been helpful to you, please let your colleagues know!

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