This document highlights strategic directions to integrate digital health into TB prevention and care activities in support of WHO’s End TB Strategy.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2015
This document is the first language guide for partners and stakeholders working in tuberculosis.These recommendations have been developed for use by everyone involved in the fight against TB and are aimed at reducing stigmatizing TB language.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Policy Makers
2015
Effective tuberculosis (TB) control and prevention activities require public health nurses who possess the necessary background knowledge and skills. This Training Roadmap allows you to design a personalized training guide, utilizing a wide range of existing resources. The materials included in the Roadmap are our recommendations for a nurse who is new to TB...
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2015
The "What Corrections Staff Need to Know" slide set is designed to be used by health department staff to educate correctional facility staff on TB treatment and control efforts. The materials may be adapted to meet the needs and regulations of your jurisdiction.
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Correctional Facility Staff
2015
The resources on this website were compiled by the NTCA/NTNC Corrections Committee. Topics include TB prevention and control, epidemiology, screening, contact investigation, infection control, release planning, and cultural factors.
When using a resource, please review and edit to comply with state and local regulations or your program needs.
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Correctional Facility Staff
2015
This document provides practical guidance on translating the World Health Organization's principles and recommendations into a national or local screening strategy.
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International Agencies
Outreach Workers
2015
This document offers recommendations from CDC’s Health Literacy Council and other agency communicators on how to reduce jargon and replace problematic terms to improve comprehension.
Everyday Words is based on years of experience and formative research by CDC’s communication staff testing materials with diverse audiences...
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Health Educators/Communicators
2015
This guide is intended to familiarize those who are providing technical assistance to TB laboratories in low- and middle-income countries with World Health Organization recommendations and international best practices.
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Lab Personnel
2015
This plan is based on the End TB strategy. Specifically it speaks about preventing TB, active case finding and contact tracing, focusing attention to key vulnerable and marginalized groups, development and roll out of new tools, and implementing TB services packages that are comprehensive and work in different types of epidemic and socioeconomic environments.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2015
The primary purposes of this framework are to: 1) promote, enhance, and intensify TB research and innovation at the country level, and 2) promote, enhance, and catalyze TB research at the global level through advocacy, innovation, discussion of global priorities, and the development of networks for research and capacity building.
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International Agencies
2015
This online resource provides a variety of tools to assist corrections staff and public health TB programs who work with correctional facilities in TB control efforts. These tools may be downloaded and modified to meet the specific needs of each site. The site contains a large compilation of modifiable forms and templates, archived webinar training, and various written, video and online resources to support TB work within correctional facilities...
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Correctional Facility Staff
2015
This fact sheet presents general information on latent TB infection.
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Persons With LTBI
2015
This document shares best practices in engagement of health care providers in programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis that have been documented in different countries and regions and implemented by different stakeholders. Case studies presented in the document are lessons learned for scale-up of public-private mix for the management of drug-resistant TB at country level.
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Policy Makers
2015
This fact sheet is a step-by-step guideline discussing the supplies required, limitations and precautions, pharmacokinetics, proper storage, and accurate placement for injection of Amikacin with picture guides. The reverse side features a table covering Amikacin, Streptomycin, and Capreomycin, including information regarding drug information, dosing, side effects, monitoring, contraindications and use in renal disease...
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Nurses
Physicians
2015
This is a web-based course that provides clinicians with the basic concepts of diagnosing and treating latent TB infection and TB disease. The course is based on the print-based Core Curriculum and includes chapters on transmission, pathogenesis, testing, diagnosis, treatment, and infection control.
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2015
This pamphlet provides information about screening of college and university students for tuberculosis (TB). It discusses the importance of screening, when and whom to screen, screening methods, interpreting the results of a TB skin test, and what to do if the TB skin test is positive. A sample TB screening form is provided.
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2014
This is the nineteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and progress in implementing and financing TB prevention, care and control at global, regional and country levels using data reported by 200 countries and territories that account for over 99% of the world’s TB cases.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2014
This handbook is a reference tool for use by national tuberculosis (TB) program managers, clinicians and nurses, public health decision-makers and technical and implementing partners committed to the prevention, care, diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant TB.
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Community Based Organizations
Health Educators/Communicators
International Agencies
2014
This webinar was created for physicians and other licensed medical professionals who diagnose and treat latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). The webinar focuses on risk assessment, diagnosis, and treatment options for LTBI.
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2014
This webinar is a public forum and panel discussion convened to examine the global health challenges that TB presents, examine the limitations and challenges of current treatment options, and discuss the search for new and better TB drugs and other tools. A podcast, speakers' biographies, and a transcript is also available...
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General Public
2014