This toolbox provides tools and guides for developing and implementing TB trainings for clinicians and other health workers. It describes how to develop timelines for trainings; conduct needs assessments to determine training needs; create agendas, syllabi, slides, and other course materials; handle training logistics and faculty recruitment; and issue CE or CME units to course participants...
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Health Educators/Communicators
2003
This report describes World TB Day 2003 activities in 51 countries. The objective of World TB Day 2003 was to involve as many TB patients as possible in activities that encourage people with TB symptoms to seek effective diagnosis and treatment.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2003
This aid is a replica of the upper part of the forearm only. It is made to lie flat on a table and to fit easily into a briefcase or tote bag. Each arm has four different indurations. A set of one beige and one brown arm is available.
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2003
These guidelines are designed to aid central units of national TB and HIV/AIDS programs work with districts to implement collaborative TB/HIV activities.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2003
These guidelines have been developed to assist national TB control programs (NTPs) in adopting specific anti-TB drug resistance surveillance systems to measure susceptibility to first-line TB drugs.
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International Agencies
2003
This book provides guidelines to national TB program managers, policy makers, nongovernmental organizations, and donor agencies on effective management of TB. The guidelines focus on the technical and managerial aspects of treatment.
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Policy Makers
2003
This guideline sets forth the framework to guide European countries in developing their national plan for reducing TB/HIV morbidity and mortality. The framework sets out the rationale for effective collaboration between HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis national programs.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2003
This report discusses compounds with potential for the treatment of TB and categorizes them into the discovery, preclinical, or clinical phases of development.
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International Agencies
2003
This book presents the objectives of the binational agenda for the Healthy Border 2010 program which was designed to facilitate and support community-based solutions for health promotion, disease prevention, and access to health services in the border region.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Policy Makers
2003
This guide is designed to help health care workers working in low-income countries interpret chest radiographs of children with suspected TB in areas where there is limited access to a radiologist or specialist.
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2003
This report provides suggestions that may facilitate increased involvement of the National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP) in health sector reform, encourage increased technical input into health systems' planning, and promote the strategic positioning of TB control in the context of changing health systems.
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International Agencies
2003
This poster serves as a quick reference to the Revised Treatment of Tuberculosis Guidelines published in February 2003 by the American Thoracic Society, CDC, and the Infectious Disease Society of America. It contains information on treatment during the initial and continuation dosing phases, the range of total doses and the rating, information on PZA and ethambutol dosing, dosing recommendations for adult patients with reduced renal function as well as for those receiving hemodialysis, and information on how to monitor those patients.
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2003
This report presents a tools package for public-private mix initiatives for DOTS implementation (PPM-DOTS) as a means of TB control. The purpose is to help national TB program (NTP) managers begin involving private providers (PPs) in DOTS implementation and to sustain collaboration.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2003
This manual presents guidelines for employers to implement TB control activities in the workplace.
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Managers and Supervisors
2003
This bilingual publication puts a human face on the TB epidemic and depicts the suffering of people affected by this disease through images and interviews. The publication also describes the efficacy of the DOTS program in fighting TB.
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International Agencies
2003