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This information kit provides information on the rationale and use of an LTBI card. It includes a sample wallet-sized pocket card that LTBI patients can use as a portable record of their tuberculin skin test, chest x-ray, and treatment status. Patients can carry the card at all times and show it whenever they are seen by a new health care provider...

This guide gathers basic information about providing language services in one document. Information includes interpreter and translator associations and agencies, training programs, assessment tools, and other materials. A searchable version is available online at www.healthlaw.org.

This is a planning document designed to facilitate the integration of strong public-private mix components into national TB strategic plans that are supposed to be the basis for Global Fund proposals and national budgeting processes, and will help drive a more comprehensive approach to provider engagement in TB care and prevention.

Basics of MDR-TB Clinical Care: Online Video Series is comprised of a series of short, online lectures presented in easy to digest segments. The series will cover major topics pertaining to epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment regimens, monitoring and case management, side-effects, prevention and isolation, treatment of contacts, and special situations...

These new guidelines supersede previous WHO policy documents on the management of LTBI in people living with HIV, household contacts of people with active TB, other groups at risk of developing TB, and for LTBI testing. The consolidated guidelines are expected to provide the basis and rationale for the development of national guidelines for LTBI management, adapted to the national and local epidemiology of TB, the availability of resources, the health infrastructure and other national and local determinants...

This handbook focuses specifically on three technologies that are being widely used to help TB patients complete their treatment over the many months that their regimens last.

This webpage provides a brief overview on what health department staff need to know abut the TB Technical Instructions. Technical Instructions are the requirements that civil surgeons and panel physicians must follow when evaluating persons as part of their application process.

Speakers for this webinar include the Deputy Director of the Global TB Institute and a survivor of MDR-TB. By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to: define stigma in the context of tuberculosis prevention and care, describe how stigma affects persons with tuberculosis, and apply interventions in the health care setting and community to reduce stigma...