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This booklet provides information for patients about tuberculosis. It includes information on TB testing, diagnosis, and treatment.

General Public Persons With LTBI Persons with TB
2008

This booklet provides information for patients about tuberculosis. It includes information on TB testing, diagnosis, and treatment.

General Public Persons With LTBI Persons with TB
2008

The Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center in collaboration with the Lung Health Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed this TB-specific cultural competency guide for Cambodia. The guide provides epidemiological information for both TB and HIV in the country, nicknames for TB, common misperceptions surrounding the etiology, disease transmission, and cures for TB and HIV as well as the stigma surrounding these diseases...

Health Educators/Communicators Outreach Workers
2008

The Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center in collaboration with the Lung Health Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed a TB-specific cultural competency guide. The guide is comprised of an introduction and individual country-specific summaries for the birth countries most commonly reported by foreign-born cases treated in the United States...

Health Educators/Communicators Outreach Workers
2008

This fact sheet provides general information on exposure to TB.

2008

This report presents summary data for TB cases reported to the CDC Division of TB Elimination (DTBE), verified, and counted in 2006. These reports of TB cases were submitted by 60 reporting areas (50 states, the District of Columbia, New York City, Puerto Rico, and seven other jurisdictions in the Pacific and Caribbean)...

2007

This poem was written for World TB Day 2007 to convey messages of commitment and hope in the efforts to eliminate TB. It captures the essence of the TB program's mission and dedication to the communities it serves.

Health Educators/Communicators International Agencies
2007

This document is intended to help TB program staff develop and write an evaluation plan. It consists of a template for writing your evaluation plan, followed by detailed instructions and guidance for filling in each section, as well as a sample evaluation plan.

Managers and Supervisors
2007

This report is a briefing for health practitioners, TB program staff, policymakers, media professionals, and people affected by TB. It argues for the need for more media coverage of TB.

Health Educators/Communicators Managers and Supervisors Policy Makers
2007

The Global MDR-TB and XDR-TB Response Plan 2007-2008 sets out measures needed now to prevent, treat and control extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). The plan also sets in motion actions to reach a 2015 goal of providing access to drugs and diagnostic tests to all MDR-TB and XDR-TB patients, saving the lives of up to 1...

International Agencies Policy Makers
2007

This is a fact sheet for policymakers on MDR and XDR TB.

International Agencies Policy Makers
2007

This eTool focuses on some of the hazards and controls found in the hospital setting, and describes standard requirements as well as recommended safe work practices for employee safety and health.

Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2007

TB ANYWHERE IS TB EVERYWHERE is the theme for 2007 World TB Day, March 24th, offering a message of urgency and shared responsibility. The theme emphasizes that although TB is a preventable and curable disease, it remains a global emergency. It reflects the chronically inadequate investment in TB control, surveillance, research and development as well as TB's deadly synergy with HIV...

General Public
2007

Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) outbreaks have been reported in South Africa, and strains have been identified on 6 continents. Dr. Peter Cegielski, team leader for drug-resistant TB with the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at CDC, comments on a multinational team's report on this emerging global public health threat.

Policy Makers
2007

This poster for World TB Day 2007 comes in five variations and displays the 2007 theme, "TB Anywhere is TB Everywhere."

International Agencies
2007

This fact sheet provides an overview of TB diagnosis, treatment, and drug-resistant TB. It also reviews the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, which has dealt with TB since its first day of operations more than 30 years ago.

International Agencies Policy Makers
2007

This short video describes TB, how it spreads, and what to do if you’re at risk.

2007

This is the story of one patient's experience with TB disease and HIV.

Health Educators/Communicators Persons With LTBI
2007

This document is intended for those dealing with tuberculosis and HIV at all levels in HIV-prevalent and resource-constrained settings. It is intended to assist development of national policies to improve the diagnosis and management of smear-negative pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The recommendations and algorithms are designed for use by national tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS control programs and service providers.

International Agencies Managers and Supervisors
2007

This resource guide was developed by the Cultural Competency Subcommittee of TB ETN. The guide includes a list of organizations, readings, and assessment tools associated with cultural competence and health.

Health Educators/Communicators Outreach Workers
2007