This fact sheet reviews the history of World TB Day and lists past years' themes. It also discusses the aims of 2002's theme "Stop TB, Fight Poverty" launched by the Stop TB Partnership to start a five year campaign.
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Health Educators/Communicators
International Agencies
2002
This report is a statement of the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (ACET) that examines the challenges to TB control in current low-incidence areas and offers recommendations for meeting those challenges. The purpose of this statement is to inform federal, state, and local public health officials, health-policy makers, and the general health-care community about the unique challenges of TB control and about the roles each can play to ensure progress toward elimination in those areas where the disease is becoming increasingly uncommon.
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Policy Makers
2002
This Power Point slide set presents basic TB information for the general public. The presentation stresses the difference between latent TB infection and active TB disease, how TB is spread, and how to prevent it.
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2002
This report describes community-based tuberculosis care in Latin America, and field visits to selected community-based TB care projects to understand the origin, performance, acceptability, effectiveness, and sustainability of some existing DOTS projects. Three sites in Colombia and two in Bolivia, where the DOTS strategy is already implemented, were visited...
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Community Leaders
Managers and Supervisors
2002
This straight-edge ruler is used to measure the induration of an individual's reaction to the tuberculin skin test. The white ruler provides tips on how to read the test and a space for local contact information to be inscribed with a permanent marker.
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2002
This book is designed for medical school faculty who are interested in implementing a TB standardized patient program for medical school students.
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Medical and Nursing School Students
Policy Makers
2002
This book discusses the medical treatments for TB as a means of prevention and elimination. It discusses typical first- and second-line treatments of TB, the use of prophylactic treatment in people exposed to TB, and the effectiveness of BCG vaccination in TB prevention.
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2002
This book provides an overview of lung health and discusses epidemiology, research methods, and the use of research results.
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2002
This videotape presents a comedic skit that illustrates the complexities involving care of a difficult inmate who has active TB disease and the collaboration needed to identify contacts and treat the inmate to cure. The videotape addresses transmission and infectiousness, medication regimen, length of treatment, and the need for good specimen collection and types of specimens.
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Correctional Facility Staff
2002
This DVD is an educational program about TB prevention through respirator use.
This video is also available in Real Media Streaming Videos and Downloadable Flash Video.
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2002
This report discusses the global efforts of national education and advocacy events that occurred on World Tuberculosis (TB) Day 2002. The report provides information about campaigns that promoted TB prevention through socioeconomic change, government support, the formation of partnerships between governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and improved healthcare access and delivery.
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International Agencies
2002
Explains Cure-TB, a referral program for people with TB moving between the United States and Mexico.
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Social Service Providers
2002
This report was conducted to systematically investigate the conditions under which Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) can be expected to mitigate the spread of Tuberculosis.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2002
This brochure discusses TB and its relationship to HIV/AIDS.
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2002
This book describes the technical framework and principles used to implement DOTS-Plus in resource poor settings. It also provides a number of case histories that illustrate common challenges in the treatment of MDR TB patients. The book includes protocols that can be used under DOTS-Plus program conditions to manage common complication of this therapy.
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2002
