This website provides information regarding pediatric TB. Treatment challenges as well as the scope of the problem are discussed.
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2014
This animated video provides an overview of TB and calls for a world with zero TB deaths.
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2014
This fact sheet provides general information about TB and why it is a concern for people experiencing homelessness and those working with homeless populations.
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Social Service Providers
2014
The poster from the Toronto Public Health raises awareness about signs and symptoms of TB and initiating infection control to protect and prevent the spread of TB among patients and hospital staff.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2014
This poster is a one-page visual for people to know that they can have latent TB infection and still feel healthy. The poster also encourages patients to see their doctor to be tested for TB infection and emphasizes that TB infection can be treated.
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Persons With LTBI
Persons with TB
2014
This fact sheet is intended for people who have latent TB infection. The resource provides general information on latent TB infection and emphasizes the importance of taking medicine to treat latent TB infection.
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Persons With LTBI
2014
This resource provides information and suggestions to support treatment adherence. The patient's healthcare provider for TB treatment can write in treatment details.
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Persons With LTBI
Persons with TB
2014
This resource provides information and general instructions for taking TB medicine. The patient's healthcare provider for TB treatment can write in treatment details.
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Persons With LTBI
Persons with TB
2014
This fact sheet provides a summary of WHO recommendations on using the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for people living with HIV.
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2014
This website, which is updated annually, contains an introduction with the history of World TB Day and multiple resources, including educational materials and posters. This website also provides a place for health educators and advocates to post and share activities they are planning for World TB Day...
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Health Educators/Communicators
2014
This fact sheet describes tuberculosis, including latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), its diagnosis, transmission, treatment options, and what people should do if they have been exposed to the disease.
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2013
This issue discusses a nurses’ relationship with a Vietnamese couple affected by TB. It highlights some challenges in communication, and how they were overcome. The issue also includes information on communication styles and use of open-ended questions.
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Outreach Workers
Policy Makers
2013
The new edition of this guide provides a background on basic epidemiology for TB program staff, as well as descriptions of how these concepts can be put to practical use. In addition to basic epidemiology for tuberculosis, this guide contains information on epidemiologic and statistical techniques that are used in research studies and a chapter on TB genotyping...
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Managers and Supervisors
2013
This pamphlet uses a question and answer format to provide information on TB disease. It explains what TB is, how it is transmitted, the symptoms of TB, and what a person needs to know about TB medicines.
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2013
This online resource provides guidelines for general physicians (GPs) about their patients with TB who intend to travel overseas. Issues of concern are the risk of transmission of TB to other passengers, as well as continuity of anti-TB treatment for the patient.
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2013
The 2013 World TB Day campaign will allow people all over the world to make an individual call to stop TB in their lifetimes.
On this website, you will find a media centre, blog, and resources. These resources include campaign documents, posters, and t-shirt designs. The resources come in six languages - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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2013
This guide was developed by the Global Laboratory Initiative, which is one of the Working Groups of the Stop TB Partnership. The guide replaces both the 1998 WHO and 2000 IUATLD guides on smear microscopy and contains many new elements.
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Lab Personnel
2013
This online course explains how the FAST strategy can be applied in various settings. FAST stands for: Finding TB cases, Actively, Separating safely, and Treating effectively.
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Managers and Supervisors
Lab Personnel
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2013
This online course discusses critical principles and steps to facilitate treatment adherence for MDR-TB patients. The five A’s are: Assess, Advise, Agree, Arrange, and Assist.
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2013
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. The guide is a revision of The PIH Guide to the Medical Management of MDR-TB that was published in 2003.
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2013
