This tool can be used by health professionals to help identify adults that may need TB testing. The resource also includes space to document the results of the TB assessment.
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Nurses
Physicians
2023
This tool can be used by health professionals to help identify children that may need TB testing. The resource also includes space to document the results of the TB assessment.
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Nurses
Physicians
2023
This tool can be used by health professionals to help identify health care workers that may need TB testing. The resource also includes space to document the results of the TB assessment.
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Nurses
Physicians
2023
This tool can be used by correctional and detention facilities to help identify their TB risk classification. The resource also provides recommendations to implement from the North Dakota Department of Health.
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Correctional Facility Staff
2023
The Think. Test. Treat TB partner toolkit provides free resources in English and Vietnamese, including TB messages, digital and print resources, social media content, patient and provider education materials, and other materials for healthcare providers and partners to support TB communication, testing, and treatment efforts...
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Community Based Organizations
Health Educators/Communicators
Nurses
Physicians
2022
This toolkit is designed for health department staff responsible for planning and conducting TB contact investigations in school settings. The toolkit provides guidance, tips, and tools for planning and implementing a school TB contact investigation.
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Educators
2022
Today, TB Alliance held a virtual meeting of its Stakeholders Association and other tuberculosis (TB) and global health stakeholders around the world to highlight the recent rapid communication issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Programme regarding updated guidelines for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and their potential impact on DR-TB therapy...
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2022
This material includes resources to assist clinicians in assessing risk for TB in children. The material is also intended to help guide decision making for testing and treatment of TB infection.
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Nurses
Physicians
2022
Asian/Asian American (A/AA) and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NH/PI) communities continue to be impacted by tuberculosis (TB) at a greater rate compared to other racial and ethnic groups. Countries with the highest TB burden among non-U.S.-born Asians and Pacific Islanders include the Philippines, India, Vietnam, China, Myanmar, and the Marshall Islands (CDC, 2022)...
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Community Based Organizations
2022
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
The False-Positive Investigation Toolkit provides mycobacteriology staff with updated resources to recognize potential false-positive results and to assist in false-positive investigations. The toolkit includes job-aids, posters, and templates that can be modified for local use.
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Lab Personnel
2019
The LTBI toolkit was developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for primary care physicians who may see patients that are at an increased risk of TB infection.
The kit includes:
-The CDC guidebook, “Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Guide for Primary Health Providers”
- An article from the August 2017 issue of the American Journal of Nursing titled, “Tuberculosis: A New Screening Recommendation and an Expanded Approach to Elimination in the United States”
-A tri-fold brochure listing resources for information about TB (the PA TB Program, CDC and the Global TB Institute at Rutgers)
-CDC infographics about LTBI and TB Disease
-CDC factsheets about TB testing and treatment
The toolkit is packaged in a box that measures 13” wide by 9 1/2” high by 3” deep.
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Health Educators/Communicators
2018
This toolkit provides background information on Video Directly Observed Therapy (VDOT) and instructs healthcare professionals on how to observe tuberculosis (TB) patients taking their medication remotely.
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Nurses
Physicians
2016
The MDR-TB Planning Toolkit is designed to help assist countries develop or strengthen a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) component within their national TB strategy or plan. Eight tools contain worksheets to assist the user through key planning steps. The toolkit is intended for countries, technical partners, international organizations, and donors.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2012
The Tuberculosis Program Manual Template is a set of fully editable Word files that provides standardized guidance to public health staff in
a low-incidence region.
Created from the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, expert opinion, and input from an advisory panel of representatives from the four states (Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming), the Tuberculosis Program Manual Template covers a comprehensive range of topics designed to meet the needs of low-incidence states/jurisdictions.
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Managers and Supervisors
2008
