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Monitoring Tuberculosis Programs - National Tuberculosis Indicator Project, United States, 2002-2008 This report summarizes the National Tuberculosis Indicators Project (NTIP) results from 2002-2008, the most recent five-year period for which data are available. NTIP is a secure, web-based monitoring system that uses routinely collected surveillance data on individual TB cases to measure performance of state and local TB programs, help programs prioritize improvement efforts and focus on key TB control activities, and track progress toward national program objectives...	2010
Smoking Cessation and Smokefree Environments for Tuberculosis Patients This Guide describes how to make TB services 100% tobacco-free, then presents ‘ABC for TB’, an intervention for TB programmes to help patients quit smoking and to promote smokefree homes for patients and families. It advocates keeping cessation simple, expanding it widely through the health services and reaching communities... Health Educators/Communicators	2010
Tuberculosis Adverse Drug Events This information card lists possible adverse reactions and/or side effects patients may have to TB medication.	2010
Tuberculosis Medication Drug and Food Interactions This information card provides information on the multiple significant drug interactions between TB medications; specifically, INH, rifampin, and other medications and the effect of the interaction. It also provides information on food interactions with TB drugs. Nurses Outreach Workers Physicians	2010
Tuberculosis: Guidelines for Workplace Control Activities The ILO and WHO, with the help of other partners in the world of work, have collaborated to develop international guidelines of TB management at the workplace. These outline how any business, large or small, or public sector workplace can make a contribution to TB management and control. Managers and Supervisors	2010
Updated Guidelines for Using Interferon Gamma Release Assays to Detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection — United States, 2010. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 59 (RR-5); 1-25, June 25, 2010 This report provides guidance to U.S. public health officials, health-care providers, and laboratory workers for use of FDA-approved IGRAs in the diagnosis of M. tuberculosis infection in adults and children. In brief, TSTs and IGRAs (QFT-G, QFT-GIT, and T-Spot) may be used as aids in diagnosing M. tuberculosis infection...	2010
Interferon-Gamma Release Assays (IGRAs) - Blood Tests for TB Infection This fact sheet provides guidance to health-care providers for use of IGRAs in the diagnosis of M. tuberculosis infection in adults and children.	2010
Country Specific Quick Reference Guides The Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center in collaboration with the Lung Health Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed TB-specific cultural competency guides. These guides have been adapted into a series of “quick reference guides.” There are quick reference guides for the countries that have accounted for more than 60% of the TB cases among foreign-born persons over the past five years: Mexico, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, China, Guatemala, and Haiti. Health Educators/Communicators Outreach Workers	2010
Tuberculosis: Poverty and Health Systems This fact sheet focuses on the need to reduce poverty and strengthen health systems as part of TB control. Policy Makers	2010
Management of MDR-TB: A Field Guide This field guide is a companion document to WHO's "Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis."	2010
Tuberculosis Hospital Discharge Planning Checklist This hospital discharge planning checklist may be used by health care workers to ensure that all of the appropriate steps have been taken in order to discharge a TB patient from the hospital. Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers	2010
Handbook for District Hospitals in Resource Constrained Settings for the Quality Improvement of Chest X-Ray Reading in Tuberculosis Suspects This manual gives guidance for the x-ray reading in TB Suspects and provides a useful tool for better diagnosing of smear-negative TB in adult TB suspects. International Agencies	2010
What’s the Role of Fluoroquinolones in the Treatment of TB?: A Look at the Evidence View this webinar to become familiar with the mechanism of action of Fluoroquinolones, medical trials investigating the role of Fluoroquinolones, and current recommendations and potential future roles of Fluoroquinolones in the treatment of tuberculosis.	2010
Tuberculosis Control Laws and Policies: A Handbook for Public Health and Legal Practitioners The purpose of this Handbook is to provide a practical source of information on laws related to TB control to help public health practitioners and their legal counsel to: (1) understand the legal environment for the control of communicable diseases, including TB; (2) identify and explain legal issues in TB control; and (3) consider the use of tools for improving TB control. Policy Makers	2010
Menu of Suggested Provisions for State Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Laws (Menu) The purpose of the Menu is to provide a set of optional provisions for consideration by public health officials and their legal counsel in their efforts to eliminate tuberculosis. Policy Makers	2010
The Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015: Transforming the Fight-Towards Elimination of Tuberculosis This new roadmap for 2011-2015 follows on the Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015 while setting new and more ambitious targets for the next five years. The action plan, for the first time, identifies all the research gaps that need to be filled to bring rapid TB tests, faster treatment regimens and a fully effective vaccine to market... Community Leaders International Agencies	2010
Limiting Liver Toxicity in the HIV-Positive Patient with Latent Tuberculosis Infection This brochure presents guidance to limit liver toxicity in the HIV-positive patient with latent TB infection.	2010
Establishing a Holistic Framework to Reduce Inequities in HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and Tuberculosis in the United States The white paper, or policy document, outlines the strategic vision of NCHHSTP for reducing health disparities and promoting health equity among populations affected by these diseases. NCHHSTP is committed to promoting awareness, stakeholder and community engagement, and action on factors that can affect the nation and the world's health; to addressing these factors in the policy, practice, and research activities of NCHHSTP; and to building partnerships on every level. Asian or Pacific Islander persons Non-U.S.-born persons Hispanic or Latino persons American Indian or Alaska Native persons Policy Makers	2010
Delivering HIV Rapid Test Results – Video and Discussion Guide Delivering HIV Rapid Test Results: Experiences from the Field is a short (approximately 30 minute) video that combines real stories from providers delivering rapid test results and clients learning their test results, as well as scripted vignettes that illustrate key points. It is designed so that it can be used both for individual study as well as in a group learning setting...	2010
Priority Research Questions for TB/HIV in HIV-Prevalent and Resource-Limited Settings This document is intended to raise awareness about TB/HIV research priorities (i.e. areas that require urgent funding and scientific interest), help coordinate advocacy efforts, and encourage research funding. The aim is to increase the implementation of high-quality, integrated TB/HIV interventions in resource-limited settings... International Agencies Policy Makers	2010