This 2-page document covers the basics of when TB skin tests are recommended, how TB is spread, what active TB disease and latent TB infection is, and what getting a TB skin test entails.
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General Public
2017
This handout provides general information on extrapulmonary TB. Topics covered include symptoms of extrapulmonary TB, how to keep friends and family safe, and how extrapulmonary TB is treated.
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General Public
Persons with TB
2017
The BCG World Atlas is a database of policies and practices of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine from countries all over the world.
Variations in BCG vaccination practices impact the interpretation of TB diagnostics, such as the widely used Tuberculin Skin Test (TST). This tool can assist clinicians in making diagnostic decisions concerning TB infection.
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Health Professionals
Civil Surgeons
2017
This tool is designed to help clinicians select adults for LTBI testing who are at high-risk for TB exposure or progression to TB disease. The tool calls out 3 groups for testing: foreign-born; immunosuppressed (e.g., HIV, TNF alpha inhibitor use, steroids, organ transplant); and contacts.
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Health Professionals
2017
The website contains the history of World TB Day and multiple resources, including web graphics, that can be used in social media updates, websites, and presentations. This website also allows TB organizations to share their World TB Day 2017 activities.The 2017 US World TB Day theme is "Unite to End TB...
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Health Educators/Communicators
2017
This webinar provides an overview of the 2016 ATS/CDC/IDSA Treatment of Drug Susceptible Tuberculosis Guidelines and practical tips for implementation. Case studies are also presented.
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Health Professionals
2017
This guide provides an overview of TB diagnostic tools and suggests recommendations for how activists and clinicians can contribute to improved TB diagnosis.
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Health Professionals
2017
The purpose of this toolkit is to assist TB programs in developing and implementing a TB eDOT program. Because eDOT programs can be very diverse to accommodate individual TB program needs, this toolkit provides general information that can be tailored to fit program needs.
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Health Professionals
Managers and Supervisors
2017
The goal of this document is to provide practical answers to ethical questions in regard to the End TB Strategy.
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Health Professionals
International Agencies
2017
This online course is designed to provide TB control staff, clinicians, and nurses a brief overview of basic principles of molecular technology and test platforms used for molecular testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a basis for understanding how mutations are associated with drug resistance and what reporting language might be used to describe resistance results.
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Health Professionals
Lab Personnel
2017
This guide is intended to help health care providers use audiometry to make informed and patient-centered decisions to prevent and manage ototoxicity resulting from second-line anti-TB injectables.
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Health Professionals
2017
These guidelines contain policy recommendations on priority areas in the treatment of drug-susceptible TB and patient care.
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Health Professionals
2017
This document describes the steps necessary to measure the corrected QT (QTc) interval from electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring for patients being treated either with the shorter treatment regimen or the new drugs for drug-resistant TB treatment.
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Health Professionals
2017
.This job aid can be used by healthcare workers to view dosage information for bedaquiline. The resource also provides visual information for patients.
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Health Professionals
2017
This report presents the results of a survey of 29 countries on national TB policies and practices. The report was created to identify gaps in implementation and monitor progress towards ending TB.
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Policy Makers
2017
This 75-minute webinar was created for physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who diagnose and treat patients with TB. The training focused on the diagnosis and follow-up of pediatric cases along with reading of the chest x-rays.
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Health Professionals
2017
This video discusses the human, scientific, and historic impact of TB. The video also includes interviews with TB patients and health care workers.
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2017
This documents provides an epidemiological profile of TB among Indigenous Peoples. Additionally, it highlights the structural and sociocultural barriers to diagnosis and treatment, outlines data gaps, and provides a general overview of indigenous perceptions of health.
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Health Professionals
Policy Makers
2017
This tool is designed to help clinicians identify students who need screening for TB.
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Health Professionals
2017
This guide provides information on the implementation of WHO recommendations and international best practices for TB laboratory strengthening. Topics in the guide include quality assurance, specimen collection, procurement and supply-chain management, biosafety, data management, human resources, and strategic planning.
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Lab Personnel
2017
