WHO and the Stop TB Partnership point to three key actions needed to improve TB care and prevent TB deaths in children, which are outlined in this advocacy brochure.
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2012
This handbook has been prepared for school nurses who may be responsible for implementing tuberculin testing programs in their schools or working in collaboration with community providers in both the public and private sectors to manage the care of a child with tuberculosis (TB) disease or latent TB infection (LTBI)...
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2011
This fact sheet discusses TB testing for health care workers, people at high risk, and people with latent TB infection or active TB disease. This fact sheet is also available in Spanish.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2011
Using a question-and-answer format, this pamphlet provides general information about TB, including transmission, symptoms, and the difference between TB infection and disease. The pamphlet explains both a blood and skin test, the procedures that are followed if the test result is negative or positive, and treatment for both TB infection and TB disease...
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2011
This information sheet discusses the need for individuals with latent TB infection (LTBI) to get treatment and prevent the progression of LTBI to TB disease. It emphasizes the importance of the health care provider communicating the value of LTBI treatment and of identifying barriers to adherence...
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2011
This information sheet discusses the bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for TB disease, which is used in many countries to prevent childhood tuberculous meningitis and miliary disease. It explains why the BCG is not generally recommended for use in the United States; suggests that the BCG should be considered under specific circumstances; and provides recommendations for when the BCG should be used with children and health care workers and contraindications when it should not be used, such as for immunosuppressed persons and pregnant women...
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General Public
2011
The report outlines the current state of pediatric TB care, and looks at current practices, new developments and research needs in pediatric TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Out of the dark intends to act as a guide to treatment programs for implementation of the best standard of care currently available to children with TB, and to raise awareness of the need to continue to push for improvements in the management of childhood TB.
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Policy Makers
2011
This curriculum is designed for training TB control professionals, NGOs, and civil society activists at national and local levels who are involved in advocacy, communication, and social mobilization (ACSM) efforts. It is designed to provide country-level staff with the specific knowledge and skills to plan, implement, and evaluate effective ACSM interventions linked to specific TB control objectives...
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Community Leaders
Policy Makers
2011
ACTION’s analysis of the link between the burden of tuberculosis (TB) and the world’s most vulnerable children - those who are malnourished, orphans, or living with HIV - sheds light on a neglected epidemic. The report, Children and Tuberculosis: Exposing a Hidden Epidemic, is a reminder that TB is not a disease of the past and remains a leading killer, especially of children whose underdeveloped immune systems leave them particularly susceptible...
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Policy Makers
2011
The STOP TB Partnership's theme for World TB Day 2011 is "On the Move Against Tuberculosis: Transforming the Fight Towards Elimination." The campaign was inspired by the Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015: Transforming the Fight-Towards Elimination of Tuberculosis, which was launched by the Stop TB Partnership in October 2010...
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2011
This website contains multiple resources for World TB Day, including educational materials and tips for conducting community outreach.
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Health Educators/Communicators
2011
This poster was designed educate members of the Navajo Nation about the conditions that put one at risk for TB.
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American Indian or Alaska Native persons
2011
This manual provides information about the guidelines and regulations pertaining to TB infection control, methods of reducing the risk of TB infection, and facility-specific guidelines for reducing the risk and dealing with potential exposure.
The manual contains information, forms, signs, and user-friendly tools for clinics, hospitals, homeless shelters, and other parties interested in the prevention and control of tuberculosis.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
Lab Personnel
Managers and Supervisors
2011
This manual provides student health centers at colleges and universities with a guide for developing and implementing a TB screening and testing program. It includes many helpful resources that can be modified and used by individual campuses.
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Social Service Providers
2011
This monograph is a flip-book is intended as a tool to assist the TB patient education process with English-speaking TB patients and their family members. Sitting across from one and other, or side by side, black and white pages are to be viewed by the healthcare professional, while color pages are to be viewed by the patient...
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General Public
2011
This information sheet discusses interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs), which are whole-blood tests used in diagnosing both latent TB infection and TB disease. It notes that two IGRAs have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and are commercially available in the United States...
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2011
This information sheet discusses the steps taken to diagnose TB disease. It describes the symptoms of TB and explains how an individual suspected of having TB is evaluated using the following: medical history, physical examination, skin test or special TB blood test, chest radiograph, microbiological tests, and finally tests for drug resistance...
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General Public
2011
In a question and answer format, this information sheet discusses testing for tuberculosis (TB). There are two kinds of tests that are used to determine if a person has been infected with TB bacteria: the tuberculin skin test (TST) and TB blood tests. It explains these two kinds of tests in detail: what is a TST, how does the TST work, what does a positive TST result mean, and who can receive a TST, what is an Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA), how does the IGRA work, what does a positive IGRA result mean, who can receive an IGRA, how often can it be given, and who should get tested for TB...
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General Public
2011
This information sheet discusses TB testing using the Mantoux tuberculin skin test (TST) to determine whether an individual is infected with Mycobacterium TB. It discusses how the TST is administered, how it is read, how TST reactions are interpreted the classification of the TST skin test reaction, what are false-positive and false-negative reactions, who can receive a TST and how often the test can be repeated, what is a boosted reaction, why two-step testing is conducted, and whether TSTs can be given to persons receiving vaccinations...
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At Risk Persons
2011
The information sheet discusses targeted TB testing, the decision to focus on groups at highest risk for latent TB infection (LTBI) and advises appropriate treatment and treatment completion to prevent LTBI progressing to active disease. It explains tuberculin skin testing (TST) and the test reactions that indicate whether an individual has LTBI; lists the criteria for classifying positive TST reactions; and describes persons at risk for developing TB disease including clinical conditions that increase the risk of LTBI becoming TB disease...
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At Risk Persons
2011
