This report is essentially a blueprint on how the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention will achieve its goals to eradicate the diseases they focus on. The report discusses goals, which align with the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, to reduce incidence, health disparities, morbidity, and mortality...
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Physicians
2015
The purpose of this flipbook is to assist healthcare workers in providing patient education around TB testing, TB infection and TB disease. Panels for patients include simple text and images to reinforce key messages and corresponding panels for providers include easy to deliver script and teaching points.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
2015
This online course covers how to diagnose, treat, and prevent childhood TB. The course consists of six modules: epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, TB/HIV, prevention, and practice. The content is based on the World Health Organization's "Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes on the Management of Tuberculosis in Children" and the Union's "Desk Guide for Diagnosis and Management of TB in Children...
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Health Professionals
2015
This video provides information regarding pediatric TB.
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Health Professionals
2015
This guide aims to improve case detection, management, and outcomes of children with TB.
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Health Professionals
2015
This fact sheet presents general information on latent TB infection.
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Persons With LTBI
2015
This document shares best practices in engagement of health care providers in programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis that have been documented in different countries and regions and implemented by different stakeholders. Case studies presented in the document are lessons learned for scale-up of public-private mix for the management of drug-resistant TB at country level.
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Health Professionals
Policy Makers
2015
This fact sheet provides information regarding the QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube Test.
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General Public
2015
A fact sheet describing the tuberculin skin test and Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) and what a positive test result means.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
Medical and Nursing School Students
2015
Users can make customized bilingual handouts by selecting from 41 TB related chapters and over 30 languages.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
Outreach Workers
2015
The purpose of these guidelines is to provide guidance on evidence-based practices for testing, treating and managing latent TB infection (LTBI) in persons who are at the highest risk of progressing to active TB disease. Specific objectives include identifying and prioritizing at-risk groups for targeted testing and treatment and recommending specific treatment options.
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Health Professionals
2015
This World TB Day, people all over the world, from TB programme managers to frontline health care providers will make a call to Reach the three million and ensure that everyone suffering from TB has access to adequate TB care, including diagnosis, treatment and cure.
On this website, you will find a media centre, blog, and resources...
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General Public
2015
This multi-lingual, animated video on TB and latent TB infection provides general information using simple messages on how TB is transmitted, the difference between latent TB infection and TB disease, as well as what people can do.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
2015
This toolkit was developed to help National TB Program managers and others involved in the management of TB programs develop new National Strategic Plans or improve existing ones.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2015
This infographic uses an iceberg to demonstrate how many people have latent TB infection and TB disease.
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General Public
2015
This document provides general guidance and examples on implementing contact investigations in low- and middle-income settings. The World Health Organization (WHO) policy document "Recommendations for Investigating Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis in Low- and Middle-Income Countries", published in late 2012, presents definitions and recommendations for what should be done for contact investigation; this document presents suggestions and examples of how the recommendations can be put into operation.
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Health Professionals
International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2015
This infographic depicts the global epidemiology of TB.
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General Public
Health Professionals
Policy Makers
2015
This document provides a generic framework for implementing TB diagnostics. Topics covered include managerial, technical, and operational processes required for developing and implementing a national strategy for TB laboratories.
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Health Professionals
Managers and Supervisors
Lab Personnel
Policy Makers
2015
This webinar was created for nurses, doctors, and other licensed medical professionals and public health professionals involved in managing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis and evaluating contacts to drug-resistant tuberculosis cases.
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Health Professionals
2015
This training was created for physicians, other licensed medical professionals, and public health professionals involved in M. bovis community prevention strategies and M. bovis case contact investigations. The webinar focuses on the epidemiology, transmission, diagnostic methods, and treatment of M...
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Health Professionals
2015