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A library of resources for the prevention,
management, and elimination of TB.

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This bilingual publication puts a human face on the TB epidemic and depicts the suffering of people affected by this disease through images and interviews. The publication also describes the efficacy of the DOTS program in fighting TB.

International Agencies
2003

This online course helps clinicians determine when to use and how to conduct the Gastric Aspirate procedure. It includes helpful tips, a list of tools and supplies needed for performing the procedure, an online video illustrating the procedure, and educational information material for the provider and families.

2003

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 in DOTS-Plus projects.

2003

This information kit provides a curriculum to educate health professionals in conducting directly observed therapy (DOT) for patients with TB. The curriculum is divided into six sessions that can be taught independently or as a series.

2003

This report presents recommendations for the treatment of tuberculosis.

2003

This fact sheet provides basic information about TB and describes how TB is transmitted.

Hispanic or Latino persons
2003

This fact sheet explains how the tuberculin skin test is administered, how it works, and what it shows.

Non-U.S.-born persons Hispanic or Latino persons
2003

This pamphlet provides information for parents about TB in children.

Parents/Families
2003

This manual is a handbook for use by state and local health departments to improve their TB control programs that require collaboration with healthcare providers in the community.

2003

This series of four fact sheets provides information on DOTS including advocacy planning.

Community Leaders International Agencies
2003

This pocket guide provides information on the phases of partnership building.

Community Leaders International Agencies
2003

This product will assist health department TB programs to document ways to decrease the number of TB cases. Specifically, programs can identify (1) providers who served the patient up to the TB diagnosis, and (2) points at which the provider failed to carry out TB testing and treatment recommendations...

Managers and Supervisors
2003

This report summarizes the results of an investigation of the patients and their contacts in Chickasaw County, Mississippi during the period from June 1999 to March 2002, and demonstrates the need for strategies to increase the proportion of infected contacts that successfully complete treatment for latent TB infection (LTBI).

2003

This report describes three cases that illustrate several issues associated with the deportation of patients with incomplete treatment of TB disease after detention. These cases highlight the need for interagency coordination to ensure completion of treatment for persons being evaluated or treated for TB.

Correctional Facility Staff Policy Makers
2003

This booklet explains the action and resources needed over the next five years for six working groups to expand, adapt, and improve DOTS, enabling the working groups to meet the 2005 global targets of setting the world on the road to the elimination of TB.

International Agencies Policy Makers
2003

This online video describes what TB is and how it is spread. It explains that although TB affects people worldwide, it can be prevented, treated, and cured. The video also identifies individuals who are at risk for TB and emphasizes that they should take the TB skin test.

2003

This brochure describes the TB Eradication Project among African immigrants and refugees in the San Diego area. The project is designed to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate TB prevention and treatment services to refugees and immigrants from East Africa.

Non-U.S.-born persons Health Educators/Communicators
2003

This resource guide provides a comprehensive list of TB materials available through the federal government, state health departments and private distributors. The guide also lists Internet sites providing information on TB and includes contact information for TB-related organizations, state TB control offices, and organizations providing funding for TB-related projects.

Health Educators/Communicators
2003

This pamphlet discusses CURE+, a referral program for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or HIV-tuberculosis (TB) co-infected patients moving between the US and Mexico.

2003

This fact sheet discusses the BCG vaccine and TB and explains that TB can develop even if persons have been given the BCG vaccine.

Non-U.S.-born persons Hispanic or Latino persons
2003