This fact sheet uses a question-and-answer format to provide the general public with information on TB. It discusses TB disease and infection, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
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Hispanic or Latino persons
2014
The Latent TB Infection (LTBI) Treatment Fact Sheet Series is designed to complement patient education delivered by healthcare professionals. Each sheet provides patients with a written reminder of their treatment regimen, medication side effects, actions to take if side effects do occur, tips to help remain adherent to the medication, and instructions in the event a dose of medication is missed.
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2013
In this video, Dr. Caralee Caplan-Shaw and her patients clarify the risks of untreated latent TB infection and motivate your patients to complete treatment.
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Persons With LTBI
2013
The Latent TB Infection (LTBI) Treatment Fact Sheet Series is designed to complement patient education delivered by healthcare professionals. For each of the three CDC-recommended LTBI regimens, there is a fact sheet in the series that can be personalized for individual patients. Each sheet provides patients with a written reminder of their treatment regimen, medication side effects, actions to take if side effects do occur, tips to help remain adherent to the medication, and instructions in the event a dose of medication is missed.
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2013
Based on The Union's 93-years of working in the field, the new guide tackles the challenges of fulfilling each patient's potential for cure from both the clinician's and the programme manager's perspective.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2013
This fact sheet presents TB morbidity rates for Hispanic/Latino persons in the United States. These statistics emphasize the need to eliminate TB and to focus on preventing and controlling TB in this minority group.
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Policy Makers
2013
This fact sheet discusses TB testing for health care workers, people at high risk, and people with latent TB infection or active TB disease. This fact sheet is also available in English.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2013
The 2013 World TB Day campaign will allow people all over the world to make an individual call to stop TB in their lifetimes.
On this website, you will find a media centre, blog, and resources. These resources include campaign documents, posters, and t-shirt designs. The resources come in six languages - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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2013
This fact sheet describes Mycobacterium bovis (bovine tuberculosis) in humans. It is also available in English.
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2013
This poster encourages people to buy queso fresco from safe sources. It was developed for and tested with low-literacy Spanish-speaking populations.
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Non-U.S.-born persons
Hispanic or Latino persons
2013
World TB Day poster available in 5 languages: Creole, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish
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2013
This information sheet discusses the bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for TB, which is used in many countries to prevent childhood tuberculous meningitis and miliary TB. It explains why the BCG is not generally recommended for use in the United States; suggests that the BCG should be considered under specific circumstances; and provides recommendations for when the BCG should be used with children and health care workers, and contraindications when it should not be used, such as for immunosuppressed persons and pregnant women...
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Hispanic or Latino persons
Persons with TB
2012
This information sheet discusses TB and the risk for international travelers. It explains TB transmission, multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains of the disease, and how drug resistance occurs. The information sheet considers whether international travelers are at risk of MDR or XDR TB while traveling, the risk of acquiring TB on an airplane, how TB can be prevented, TB vaccine, and what an individual should do before traveling internationally and if an individual thinks that he/she may have been exposed to someone with TB disease...
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Hispanic or Latino persons
2012
This fact sheet provides information on tuberculin skin testing. It explains how to interpret tuberculin skin test (TST) results, including special considerations.
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2012
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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2012