This fact sheet explains that DOTS can reduce household poverty by averting (1) the loss of income, (2) the cost of inadequate treatment, (3) the socio-economic costs of coping by families, (4) malnutrition, and (5) death.
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2002
This fact sheet discusses the risk groups who are more vulnerable to TB and why these groups are most at risk. The at-risk groups includeing the urban poor, migrants, and refugees, the homeless, prisoners, and people living with HIV/AIDS.
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2002
This fact sheet reviews the history of World TB Day and lists past years' themes. It also discusses the aims of 2002's theme "Stop TB, Fight Poverty" launched by the Stop TB Partnership to start a five year campaign.
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Health Educators/Communicators
International Agencies
2002
This Power Point slide set presents basic TB information for the general public. The presentation stresses the difference between latent TB infection and active TB disease, how TB is spread, and how to prevent it.
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2002
This report describes community-based tuberculosis care in Latin America, and field visits to selected community-based TB care projects to understand the origin, performance, acceptability, effectiveness, and sustainability of some existing DOTS projects. Three sites in Colombia and two in Bolivia, where the DOTS strategy is already implemented, were visited...
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Community Leaders
Managers and Supervisors
2002
This fact sheet includes helpful hints on pediatric medicine administration if a child has difficulty swallowing pills or capsules.
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Parents/Families
2002
This report outlines a strategy for management of human resources for TB control.
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2002
This report was conducted to systematically investigate the conditions under which Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) can be expected to mitigate the spread of Tuberculosis.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2002
This DVD is an educational program about TB prevention through respirator use.
This video is also available in Real Media Streaming Videos and Downloadable Flash Video.
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2002
This report is a statement of the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (ACET) that examines the challenges to TB control in current low-incidence areas and offers recommendations for meeting those challenges. The purpose of this statement is to inform federal, state, and local public health officials, health-policy makers, and the general health-care community about the unique challenges of TB control and about the roles each can play to ensure progress toward elimination in those areas where the disease is becoming increasingly uncommon.
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Policy Makers
2002
This report presents the findings of a short-term study to examine the risk of TB among health care workers. It discusses the possible effects of federal guidelines, responses to resurgent TB, and proposed strategies for eliminating TB in the United States and worldwide.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2001
This pamphlet discusses the use of the drug isoniazid (INH) to treat latent TB infection. It provides information on the length of treatment and side effects.
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2001
This report provides findings from a study designed to compare a whole-blood interferon gamma assay, the QuantiFERON-TB test, with tuberculin skin testing for detecting latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and to identify factors associated with discordance between the tests.
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2001
This information packet discusses the use of a clinician-based referral and tracking system for migrant workers with TB. It includes samples of a pocket-sized bilingual (English/Spanish) treatment record for migrant workers.
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2001
This monograph discusses the history of TB, the search for TB treatment and diagnostic methods, and its resurgence, including the emergence of multiple drug resistant (MDR) strains of TB.
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2001
These four self-study modules cover public health and public nursing issues, the fundamentals of TB case management, leadership skills of the nurse case manager, and case management of pediatric patients with TB.
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2001
This report presents information about the Global TB Drug Facility, a program designed to ensure access to and the availability of TB drugs.
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International Agencies
2001
This fact sheet, available online or via fax only, discusses who should receive treatment, regimen options for HIV-infected persons as well as those not infected, and monitoring.
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2001
This fact sheet explains the purpose of the Global Drug Facility (GDF) to expand access to, and availability of, high-quality TB drugs to facilitate DOTS expansion, and to enable governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to implement effective TB control programs based upon the DOTS stragegy.
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International Agencies
2001
This prospectus is a culmination of input from Stop TB Partners including representatives from TB high-burden countries, UN agencies, Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), and foundations to develop the form, strategies, objectives, and governance of the Global TB Drug Facility (GDF).
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International Agencies
2001
