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 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 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
This online course helps clinicians determine when to use and how to conduct the Gastric Aspirate procedure. It includes helpful tips, a list of tools and supplies needed for performing the procedure, an online video illustrating the procedure, and educational information material for the provider and families.
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2003
This pocket guide is intended to be a resource for physicians and other health care professionals who provide care and treatment to patients with MDR TB in DOTS-Plus projects.
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2003
This information kit provides a curriculum to educate health professionals in conducting directly observed therapy (DOT) for patients with TB. The curriculum is divided into six sessions that can be taught independently or as a series.
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2003
This fact sheet provides basic information about TB and describes how TB is transmitted.
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Hispanic or Latino persons
2003
This fact sheet explains how the tuberculin skin test is administered, how it works, and what it shows.
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Non-U.S.-born persons
Hispanic or Latino persons
2003
This pamphlet provides information for parents about TB in children.
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Parents/Families
2003
This manual is a handbook for use by state and local health departments to improve their TB control programs that require collaboration with healthcare providers in the community.
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2003
This series of four fact sheets provides information on DOTS including advocacy planning.
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Community Leaders
International Agencies
2003
This pocket guide provides information on the phases of partnership building.
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Community Leaders
International Agencies
2003
This brochure describes the TB Eradication Project among African immigrants and refugees in the San Diego area. The project is designed to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate TB prevention and treatment services to refugees and immigrants from East Africa.
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Non-U.S.-born persons
Health Educators/Communicators
2003