The guide details messaging and strategies to help advocates and activists ensure that the LAM test is made available in-country.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2020
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to: explain the impact that population mobility bears on public health within the context of globalization, outline strategies and approaches for addressing challenges of TB management and care among migrants, and develop strategies and best practices to address medical and community management of migrant population...
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Physicians
2020
The video contains information on the basics of TB infection, targeted testing, recommendations for screening and testing high-risk groups, and patient education messages.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Medical and Nursing School Students
Physicians
2020
This video presents information on the difference between TB infection and disease, testing methods and recommendations, and interpretation of test results. The video also discusses special considerations for testing and the medical evaluation process...
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Health Educators/Communicators
Medical and Nursing School Students
Physicians
2020
This wepage provides information on the similarities between COVID-19 and tuberculosis, wearing a mask, reducing stigma, and more. The document is also available in English, French, Spanish, Russian, Polish, and Chinese.
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Educators
General Public
Health Educators/Communicators
Persons with TB
2020
This one-page flow diagram for clinicians and health-care providers lists remarks and side effects of second-line drugs used to treat MDR-TB. It provides information on the measured MIC, serum levels, and dosing of each drug.
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Nurses
Physicians
2020
The website includes various resources that were developed to address the difficulties that HIV programs might encounter when implementing TB preventive treatment. Programs can adapt the tools as needed...
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International Agencies
2020
Speakers for this webinar include the Deputy Director of the Global TB Institute and a survivor of MDR-TB. By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to: define stigma in the context of tuberculosis prevention and care, describe how stigma affects persons with tuberculosis, and apply interventions in the health care setting and community to reduce stigma...
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Civil Surgeons
Health Educators/Communicators
Medical and Nursing School Students
Nurses
Persons with TB
Physicians
2020
This material was developed for clinicians to use with patients that are prescribed the three months of daily isoniazid plus rifampin (3HR) regimen for the treatment of latent TB infection. There is space to write treatment information, medication intake, and doctor/clinic contact information...
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Persons With LTBI
Physicians
2020
This fact sheet provides information on tuberculin skin testing. It explains how to interpret tuberculin skin test (TST) results, including special considerations.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Physicians
2020
WHO has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The main aim of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global, regional and country levels. This report is updated annually...
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2020
This video instructs contact investigators on how to work with healthcare professionals to provide tuberculosis (TB) treatment.
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Nurses
Physicians
2020
This fact sheet provides clinicians with steps to recognize signs of TB, diagnose via a full evaluation, and report probable and confirmed cases to their local health department.
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Civil Surgeons
Physicians
Nurses
2020
This poster aims to remind health professionals to continue to consider TB in patients presenting with symptoms and risk factors consistent with TB, regardless of their COVID-19 status.
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Nurses
Physicians
2020
This resource presents a method of assessing and updating laboratory procedures to assist in detecting TB early by reducing lab turnaround time for reporting positive smear, culture, identification, and susceptibility results.
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Lab Personnel
2019
