This manual provides information on how to read a chest radiograph, radiographic manifestations of TB and presents case studies. The manual also has questions and answers at the end of each chapter to help the reader assess their understanding of the material. Continuing education credits are available.
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2006
During November 2004 - November 2005, CDC and WHO surveyed an international network of TB laboratories to assess the frequency and distribution of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB cases. This report summarizes the results of that survey.
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Policy Makers
2006
As a result of the first meeting of the Global XDR TB Task Force (October 6-7, 2006), the case definition of extensively drug-resistant tuberculisis (XDR TB) was revised. This Notice to Readers details the events leading up to this revision and the new case definition.
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Policy Makers
2006
Addendum to WHO "Guidelines for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in Health Care Facilities in Resource-Limited Settings, 1999"
The goal of this addendum is to help management and staff minimize the risk of TB transmission at facilities in resource-limited settings in which HIV-infected persons receive diagnosis, care, treatment, and/or support, and settings in which there is a high prevalence of HIV infection, both known and undiagnosed.
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Policy Makers
2006
This guide gathers basic information about providing language services in one
document. Information includes interpreter and translator associations and agencies, training programs, assessment tools, and other materials. A searchable version is available online at www.healthlaw.org.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Civil Surgeons
2006
This report presents summary data for U.S. TB cases reported to the Division of TB Elimination, CDC, during 2005.
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Policy Makers
2006
This report defines the Stop TB Strategy. The goal of the Stop TB Strategy is to dramatically reduce the global burden of TB by 2015 in line with the Millennium Development Goals and the Stop TB Partnership targets.
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Policy Makers
2006
This report contains an expert assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce and ambitious proposals to tackle it over the next ten years.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2006
Annex to WHO "Tuberculosis Infection Control in the Era of Expanding HIV Care and Treatment". This slideset on TB Infection Control was created to be used by a training facilitator or lecturer.
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Policy Makers
2006
This slide presentation with streaming audio, provides information on how to manage treatment of tuberculosis (TB). A pre and posttest, question and answer guide, printable PowerPoint slide file, and other useful resources are also included as supplemental reading materials.
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Medical and Nursing School Students
2006
This toolbox contains sample letters, forms, and protocols that can be adapted and used by local programs to contact and follow-up with recent immigrants and refugees entering the US with a B classification.
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Managers and Supervisors
Civil Surgeons
2006
These tools are primarily for urban TB programs wishing to improve secondary prevention of TB in those groups at high risk of progression to TB disease, including the homeless, chemically dependent, and mentally ill. The materials include sample letters, forms, and job descriptions and protocols as well as templates of these tools for adaptation to local programs...
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Managers and Supervisors
Outreach Workers
2006
This document guides NTPs on how to engage all relevant health care providers in TB control and thereby promote the use of evidence-based, International Standards for TB Care. The experience and evidence on scaling up and sustaining PPM is now clearly emerging. The authors hope that this document will help countries to scale up PPM DOTS more rapidly and contribute significantly to achieving the TB-related Millennium Development Goal.
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Community Leaders
International Agencies
2006
This reference card includes information on the risk factors for TB infection and developing TB disease, primary evaluation of patients, determining the medical history of a TB suspect, essential anti-TB drugs (prescribed by TB services), an overview of adverse drug effects and their management, an algorithm for detecting and diagnosing pulmonary TB, and patient education and adherence.
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International Agencies
2006
These guidelines offer recommendations for TB control programmes and medical workers in middle- and low- income countries faced with drug-resistant forms of TB, especially MDR-TB.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2006
