This document is designed to provide guidance to TB and HIV programme managers, employers, workers organizations, occupational health staff and other partners on the need and ways to work in partnership to design and implement workplace TB/HIV prevention, treatment and care programmes integrated with occupational health and HIV workplace programmes where relevant.
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Managers and Supervisors
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2012
Adopting electronic recording and reporting is not simply about choosing a piece of software: it is also about changing how people work. This is not a simple undertaking. This document introduces the key questions to be considered and illustrates what the questions, options and recommendations mean in practice by drawing on examples of recent experience from a variety of countries...
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Managers and Supervisors
2012
This guide summarizes The Union's experience in developing approaches to integrated TB-HIV care for adults in resource-limited settings. It is recommended for health professionals at the implementation level and national programme staff in charge of policy and practices for collaborative TB-HIV activities.
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Managers and Supervisors
2012
This course was designed to give hands-on practice in identifying when and how an Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) program can be used in the prevention of tuberculosis in people living with HIV. Depending on individual pace and previous knowledge, this course requires around 30 to 45 minutes to complete.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2012
This is the seventeenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional and country levels using data reported by 204 countries and territories that account for over 99% of the world’s TB cases.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2012
A 2-hour webinar focuses on tools and strategies State and local health departments can use to help private providers (including Federally Qualified Health Centers, Community Health Clinics, HMOs, and smaller practice practitioners) get up-to-speed on the diagnosis and treatment of latent TB infection (LTBI).
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Managers and Supervisors
Social Service Providers
2012
This fact sheet gives an overview of TB infection-control measures and explains how to determine the infectiousness of TB patients.
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Managers and Supervisors
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2012
The new edition of this guide provides a background on basic epidemiology for TB program staff, as well as descriptions of how these concepts can be put to practical use. In addition to basic epidemiology for tuberculosis, this guide contains information on epidemiologic and statistical techniques that are used in research studies and a chapter on TB genotyping...
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Managers and Supervisors
2013
This online course explains how the FAST strategy can be applied in various settings. FAST stands for: Finding TB cases, Actively, Separating safely, and Treating effectively.
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Managers and Supervisors
Lab Personnel
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2013
This guide specifically addresses issues such as stigma and work discrimination, and also provides practical recommendations on how to establish an effective monitoring system.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2013
The main purpose of this guide is to describe and explain how to design, implement and analyse an inventory study to measure TB under-reporting. The guide also explains how to apply capture-recapture methods to estimate TB incidence, emphasizing the conditions that must be fulfilled for these methods to be used...
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2013
This guide was developed to help advocacy, communication, and social mobilization (ACSM) programs at national and subnational levels strengthen routine monitoring and evaluation of tuberculosis ACSM activities.
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Health Educators/Communicators
International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2013
Based on The Union's 93-years of working in the field, the new guide tackles the challenges of fulfilling each patient's potential for cure from both the clinician's and the programme manager's perspective.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2013
This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and ?nancing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional and country levels using data reported by 197 countries and territories that account for over 99% of the world’s TB cases.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2013
This document outlines community-based strategies for integrating childhood TB activities, such as TB prevention and identification of TB, with other maternal and child health care services. Suggested modifications for including childhood TB into community-based care models are provided.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2013
