This book describes exposure, infection, disease, and death from TB using epidemiological data. It reviews statistics, including the number of TB cases, the duration of infection in these cases, and the number of case contact interactions per unit of time.
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International Agencies
1999
This book presents information about implementing, maintaining, and evaluating respirator protection programs in health care facilities.
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Managers and Supervisors
Health Educators/Communicators
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
1999
This guide is to help providers establish and enhance social support services in a TB clinic. The purpose of this guide is to help the worker to (1) establish social services, (2) develop a therapeutic alliance with clients, (3) create an Intake Form to identify barriers to TB treatment and formulate goals to reduce those barriers and increase client functioning, (4) counsel and help clients achieve their goals, (5) form support groups, and (6) lead or participate in case management.
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Managers and Supervisors
Outreach Workers
Social Service Providers
1999
This instructional packet includes a series of four print-based modules addressing TB contact investigation, case management, and confidentiality. It also provides information on managing multidrug-resistant TB and on DOT.
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Outreach Workers
2000
This pamphlet explains TB and TB skin testing.
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2000
This guideline describes how to organize and run events and activities for World TB Day.
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Community Leaders
2000
This guideline outlines the steps involved in conducting a TB interview for a contact investigation.
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2000
This videotape and CD-ROM provide guidance to respiratory protection administrators in the development of programs to prevent TB through respirator use.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2000
This book is for health care workers considering embarking on TB control in prisons and covers structural, administrative, and medical issues. It is designed primarily for use in settings where there is a high incidence of TB and limited resources.
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Correctional Facility Staff
2000
This pamphlet, available online only, explains the causes and symptoms of TB and differentiates between active TB disease and latent TB infection. It was adapted by the Division of Tuberculosis Control, Virginia Department of Health, from materials developed in 1993 by the New York State Department of Health.
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2000
This fact sheet, available online or via fax only, discusses the tuberculin skin test and when to suspect TB disease. Specifically, it discusses administering the tuberculin skin test, interpreting the results, false-positive and false-negative results, two-step testing, anergy, and interpreting reactions in persons vaccinated with BCG.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2000
This book provides government and nongovernment entities involved in TB elimination with background on the pathology of TB, its history, and the public and private response to TB in the United States.
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Community Leaders
2000
This manual provides a structured plan for the training, development and evaluation of healthcare workers involved in contact investigation. It focuses on interview techniques and communication skills and provides data collection instruments for the provision of objective feedback to the interviewer.
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Managers and Supervisors
2000
This study examined the clinic records of TB programs to determine whether these programs used recommended practices to manage HIV-positive persons exposed to TB. The study suggests that TB programs need to review their contact investigation policies, procedures, and outcomes to reduce missed opportunities for preventing active TB among HIV-positive close contacts.
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2000
This report describes an outbreak of drug-susceptible TB that occurred in a South Carolina state correctional facility housing HIV-infected inmates and illustrates the need for increased vigilance for TB in settings in which HIV-infected persons congregate.
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2000
