This series of three videos aims to help providers talk to their patients about latent TB infection testing and treatment. Each of the videos are two-minutes long. The topics covered include:
•Why Should I Get Testing for Latent TB?
•Why Do I Need Treatment for Latent TB?
•I Received the BCG Vaccine: Do I Still Need Latent TB Testing and Treatment?
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
2019
This poster includes information on TB testing and TB disease symptoms.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2019
This guide details safety, efficacy, and access information on rifapentine. The guide also provides activists with the evidence and content needed to advocate for rifapentine to be available, accessible, and affordable to those who may need it.
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2019
This resource presents a method of assessing and updating laboratory procedures to assist in detecting TB early by reducing lab turnaround time for reporting positive smear, culture, identification, and susceptibility results.
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Health Professionals
Lab Personnel
2019
This National TB Report publishes key process and outcomes measures for TB control programs in the United States to evaluate progress towards TB elimination.
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Community Based Organizations
Health Professionals
2019
These educational modules are designed to provide basic information about tuberculosis (TB) in a self-study format for new TB health care workers. This instructional packet includes a series of five modules, an introduction, a glossary, and content covering transmission, pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment of TB infection and disease, and infection control...
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Health Professionals
Outreach Workers
2019
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.
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Civil Surgeons
Health Professionals
2019
The resource was designed to help healthcare providers:
1. Quickly identify and answer key questions when considering whether to start a patient on the isoniazid-rifapentine (3HP) regimen
2. Assess the appropriateness of self-administered therapy of 3HP for each individual patient
3...
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Health Professionals
Physicians
2018
This 2-page document provides information on latent TB infection, what a positive TB skin or blood test means, latent TB infection treatment, and various myths and fears about latent TB infection.
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General Public
2018
The handout describes the main characteristics of LTBI and Active TB, as well as their differences. The material also describes what increases the risk for developing Active TB and how to prevent TB from developing. English is on one side and Arabic is on the other.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
2018
The handout describes the main characteristics of LTBI and Active TB, as well as their differences. The material also describes what increases the risk for developing Active TB and how to prevent TB from developing. English is on one side and Chuukese is on the other.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
2018
The handout describes the main characteristics of LTBI and Active TB, as well as their differences. The material also describes what increases the risk for developing Active TB and how to prevent TB from developing. English is on one side and Amharic is on the other.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
2018
This facilitator-led guide is intended to build internal capacity within TB programs by assisting trainers to educate their colleagues on issues of cultural proficiency.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
Outreach Workers
2018
This guide is designed to explain the safety and efficacy of bedaquiline. It also describes what you as an activist can do to help ensure access, fair pricing and further research. The guide provides messages that regulatory authorities need to hear to prepare for bedaquiline and other new TB drugs...
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2018
This infographic provides a variety of information regarding latent TB infection in the United States, including the estimated number of people with latent TB infection, the cost-effectiveness of latent TB infection treatment, and who should be tested. Supporting graphics are available to use in print and online content.
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General Public
2018
This tool is designed to help clinicians identify asymptomatic children for latent TB infection testing.
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Health Professionals
2018
A fact sheet with information of collecting sputum for TB, including content on why sputum testing is necessary.
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General Public
Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2018
This webinar is the continuation of the Pediatric TB Radiology webinar Part 1 from May 2017. The webinar provides information on pediatric case diagnosis and follow up. There is also a focus on reading chest x-rays. The training was developed for physicians, nurses, and other licensed health professionals who diagnose and treat individuals with TB.
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Health Professionals
2018
This mobile application (app) was developed to facilitate monitoring and evaluation of programmatic management of LTBI. Through the app, health-care workers can collect client information used to monitor indicators for the management of LTBI. The app can be modified to meet the specific needs of the country using the app.
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Health Professionals
Outreach Workers
2018
The LTBI toolkit was developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for primary care physicians who may see patients that are at an increased risk of TB infection.
The kit includes:
-The CDC guidebook, “Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Guide for Primary Health Providers”
- An article from the August 2017 issue of the American Journal of Nursing titled, “Tuberculosis: A New Screening Recommendation and an Expanded Approach to Elimination in the United States”
-A tri-fold brochure listing resources for information about TB (the PA TB Program, CDC and the Global TB Institute at Rutgers)
-CDC infographics about LTBI and TB Disease
-CDC factsheets about TB testing and treatment
The toolkit is packaged in a box that measures 13” wide by 9 1/2” high by 3” deep.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
2018
