This guide details 2020 updates to the WHO guidelines about the global standard of care for drug-resistant TB. The guide also includes messaging and strategies that can be used to advocate for WHO-recommended regimens.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2020
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
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
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
Infographic: Refer clients with symptoms lasting more than 2-3 weeks to a medical provider immediately. Clients with infectious TB disease should not be in group settings.
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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 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
Health Literacy: New Field, New Opportunities is an online tutorial designed for health and literacy educators interested in addressing health literacy barriers to good health in their work. The tutorial was developed by World Education with funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region (NN/NL NER)...
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Health Educators/Communicators
2019
This fact sheet provides information on home and hospital isolation for patients with infectious TB disease.
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2019
The webinar presents information about the risk of TB among refugees from TB endemic countries and the challenges that influence their ability and willingness to see a health care provider after arriving to the US. The webinar also discusses factors that may affect U.S. health care providers’ ability to effectively evaluate and treat refugees for TB and LTBI.
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2019
Someone with untreated latent TB infection and diabetes is more likely to develop TB disease than someone without diabetes. Without proper treatment, diabetes and TB can increase health complications. This webpage features information on the relationship between TB and diabetes, TB treatment for individuals with diabetes, and related links for patients and health care providers.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Persons With LTBI
2019
This webinar provides information on the identification of patients at high risk for progression to active disease. The presenters also discuss challenges for treatment completion, such as co-morbidities, risky behaviors, and other medications that may interfere with treatment.
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2019
This poster is intended to encourage health care workers to advise clients that if conditions of tuberculosis (TB) symptoms last more than 2-3 weeks, to avoid group settings and see a medical provider immediately.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Nurses
Physicians
2019
