This material is a collection of 45 examples of the prevention, control, and care of TB. There are examples from 21 countries, including 14 countries of high priority for MDR TB and countries with high and low TB incidence.
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Health Professionals
International Agencies
2016
This toolkit provides background information on video directly observed therapy (VDOT) as well as example templates to be adapted for local implementation of VDOT.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Managers and Supervisors
Outreach Workers
Policy Makers
2016
This documents provides an epidemiological profile of TB among people living with HIV. Additionally, it highlights the structural and sociocultural barriers to diagnosis and treatment, and outlines data gaps.
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Health Professionals
Policy Makers
2016
A fact sheet on latent TB infection treatment, including helpful information on how to remember to take the medicine.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2016
A fact sheet for individuals experiencing a TB contact investigation. This material includes information on what happens in a TB contact investigation and how to protect others from active TB disease.
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General Public
Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2016
This guide provides a summary of safety and efficacy data for drugs currently in use to treat TB. The guide also suggests advocacy points for activists, clinicians, and others working in TB.
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Health Professionals
2016
This field guide is meant to serve as a tool for practitioners working with children at risk of infection or being sick with MDR TB. It should be considered complementary to existing recommendations.
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Health Professionals
International Agencies
2016
This fact sheet provides general information on TB drug resistance.
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2016
This fact sheet provides fast facts about HIV and tuberculosis as well as the numbers, prevention challenges, what CDC is doing, and additional resources.
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General Public
2016
This 90-minute webinar is the second of two webinars to highlight the NTCA/APHL Consensus Statement on the Use of Cepheid GeneXpert MTB/RIF Assay. The first webinar is Changing TB Isolation Practices: New Guidelines for Molecular Testing.
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Health Professionals
Lab Personnel
Nurses
Physicians
2016
This 90-minute webinar is the first of two webinars to highlight the NTCA/APHL Consensus Statement on the Use of Cepheid GeneXpert MTB/RIF Assay. The second webinar is GeneXpert: Examples From the Field.
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Health Professionals
Lab Personnel
Nurses
Physicians
2016
This 90-minute webinar is the first of two webinars to highlight the NTCA/APHL Consensus Statement on the Use of Cepheid GeneXpert MTB/RIF Assay. The second webinar is GeneXpert: Examples From the Field.
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Health Professionals
Lab Personnel
Nurses
Physicians
2016
This toolkit provides background information on Video Directly Observed Therapy (VDOT) and instructs healthcare professionals on how to observe tuberculosis (TB) patients taking their medication remotely.
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Health Professionals
Nurses
Physicians
2016
A fact sheet on the TB skin test, including information on latent TB infection, TB disease, and what a positive/negative skin test means. The fact sheet also has information on testing after receiving the BCG vaccine.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2016
A fact sheet on the QuantiFERON (also called QFT test), including information on how test results are interpreted. There is also content on the difference between latent TB infection and TB disease.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2016
This information sheet discusses treatment of drug-susceptible TB in HIV-infected people. It explains that the treatment is complex, and presents the recommended regimen, including the initial phase and the continuation phase, and considers the problem of drug interactions and the importance of case management...
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Health Professionals
Persons with TB
2016
This pamphlet explains TB transmission, the difference between latent TB infection (LTBI) and TB disease, and the treatment for LTBI.
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Persons With LTBI
2016
This website is an innovative forum for persons affected by tuberculosis and the wider community. TB Photovoice improves the overall health of individuals and communities by using images, stories and dialogue to give a powerful voice to people affected by tuberculosis. The website is a welcoming, safe place exclusively for people impacted by TB to share and be supported...
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Community Leaders
General Public
Health Professionals
2016
This brochure explains TB and its connection with HIV/AIDS. It discusses TB transmission and describes the symptoms of TB disease.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
2016
This fact sheet provides information regarding the 12-dose regimen for treating latent TB infection.
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Adults
At Risk Persons
Non-U.S.-born persons
General Public
Persons with TB
2016
