This report sets out the rationale for the ProTest Initiative (Promotion of Voluntary Testing), based on an analysis of the impact of HIV on TB control. It describes the elements of the ProTest approach, reviews progress so far, and sets out the future direction. The purpose of the report is to generate discussion and ideas that will help the Initiative establish a comprehensive range of interventions needed to control TB in settings with high prevalence of HIV infection.
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Policy Makers
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
This brochure discusses TB and its relationship to HIV/AIDS.
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2002
This book discusses targeted tuberculin skin testing for latent TB infection as a strategic component of TB control. Specifically addressed are how to administer, read, and interpret the tuberculin skin test and its specificity and sensitivity.
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2002
This report, based upon current available scientific knowledge and medical practice, provides information to the medical community concerned with the care of individuals with tuberculosis and/or HIV/AIDS.
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2002
This fact sheet discusses the correlation between TB and poverty. It lists the steps in fighting TB and poverty, and states that DOTS is a global strategy to fight TB and alleviate poverty and inequity.
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2002
This fact sheet explains that DOTS can reduce household poverty by averting (1) the loss of income, (2) the cost of inadequate treatment, (3) the socio-economic costs of coping by families, (4) malnutrition, and (5) death.
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2002
This fact sheet discusses the risk groups who are more vulnerable to TB and why these groups are most at risk. The at-risk groups includeing the urban poor, migrants, and refugees, the homeless, prisoners, and people living with HIV/AIDS.
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2002
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 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 fact sheet includes helpful hints on pediatric medicine administration if a child has difficulty swallowing pills or capsules.
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Parents/Families
2002
This report outlines a strategy for management of human resources for TB control.
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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 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
