This fact sheet, available online or via fax only, discusses the tuberculin skin test and when to suspect TB disease. Specifically, it discusses administering the tuberculin skin test, interpreting the results, false-positive and false-negative results, two-step testing, anergy, and interpreting reactions in persons vaccinated with BCG.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2000
This fact sheet covers when you should suspect Tuberculosis (TB). The fact sheet also details how to evaluate a person suspected of having TB disease.
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2008
This guide is designed to help health care workers working in low-income countries interpret chest radiographs of children with suspected TB in areas where there is limited access to a radiologist or specialist.
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2003
This guideline is intended to provide a framework and understanding of the diagnostic approaches to TB infection/disease and to present a classification scheme that facilitates management of all persons who have had diagnostic tests.
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2000
This document highlights strategic directions to integrate digital health into TB prevention and care activities in support of WHO’s End TB Strategy.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2015
This is a form for patients and case managers/health departments to sign indicating that they understand and agree to Directly Observed Therapy for treatment of TB.
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Persons With LTBI
2011
This fact sheet explains the facts about DOT.
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2006
This training curriculum is designed to improve the skills of DOT workers in public health TB control programs. It addresses skills required to conduct DOT such as promoting patient adherence to TB treatment, protecting patient confidentiality, and working with culturally diverse populations. The curriculum includes a trainer’s guide and participant materials, as well as handouts, training outlines, slide presentations, and an educational videotape.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Managers and Supervisors
Outreach Workers
2003
The recent emergence of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) calls for enhanced cooperation between public health authorities, homeless service systems, and other partners at the local level. HUD strongly encourages CoCs to contact their local public health departments, Healthcare for the Homeless agencies, and other local health partners to ensure the unique needs and opportunities related to the homeless service system are incorporated in plans to prevent and respond to infectious diseases like COVID-19...
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State Government Agencies
2022
The "10/90 Gap" is the idea that only 10% of global health research is devoted to conditions accounting for 90% of the global disease burden.
This report dispels the myth of the 10/90 Gap in health research including research regarding tuberculosis. It calls for a more constructive approach to improving access to medicines for the poor.
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International Agencies
2004
This guideline is developed by the Global Health Initiative, World Health Organization, UNAIDS and the Global Partnership to Stop TB for the joint management of HIV/AIDS and TB in the workplace.
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Managers and Supervisors
2004
This video provides information on how to administer directly observe therapy (DOT).
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Outreach Workers
2016
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.
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2003
This video describes the process of Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) so that clinicians, nurses, and other health care professionals are aware of how to observe individuals receiving tuberculosis (TB) treatment.
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Nurses
Physicians
2021
This report explains the European DOTS Expansion plan to control TB. The plan highlights country needs and resource gaps, emphasizing collaboration with the governments of endemic countries, national and international agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The aim is to stimulate social and political commitment to achieving the global TB targets as part of the overall health system...
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2002
This booklet explains the relationship between MDR-TB, DOTS, and DOTS-Plus and how projects can become a DOTS-Plus pilot project that can benefit from concessionary prices negotiated for second-line anti-TB drugs by the Working Group.
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Managers and Supervisors
2000
This report highlights the issues surrounding high prices and poor supply of the drugs needed to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). The report provides an overview of available drug-resistant TB medicines, including drug sources, quality status, and price.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2011
This report analyses the factors affecting access to treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), including new and repurposed drugs. Detailed pricing profiles of key DR-TB drugs are also provided.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2016
This report highlights the issues surrounding high prices and poor supply of the drugs needed to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). The report provides an overview of available drug-resistant TB medicines, including drug sources, quality status, and price.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2013
The animation educates viewers on topics related to drug-resistant TB and multidrug-resistant TB, such as treatment plans, basic information on multidrug-resistant TB, and the importance of medication adherence.
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2018
