This series of interactive modules was developed by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Topics include laboratory safety, specimen collection, AFB smear microscopy, mycobacterial culture, and drug susceptibility testing...
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Lab Personnel
2014
These four webinars highlight challenges, legal requirements, and best practice strategies for preventing and controlling TB in correctional facilities. These webinars were produced by the Minnesota Department of Health in consultation with several local public health agencies and correctional agency staff...
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Correctional Facility Staff
2014
The purpose of this training toolkit is to build the capacity of health care workers to address and manage TB in children. The toolkit consists of ten modules. Topics include epidemiology of childhood TB, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, TB/HIV co-infection, multidrug-resistant TB, and community-based child TB management.
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International Agencies
2014
This booklet discusses TB in correctional facilities.
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International Agencies
2014
This document presents lessons learned in regards to strengthening TB care, implementing new approaches TB case detection, and increasing TB case notifications.
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International Agencies
2014
This handbook provides detailed examples of the analysis of TB surveillance data, in particular TB notification data, data from surveillance of anti-TB drug resistance, and mortality data compiled in national vital registration systems.
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International Agencies
2014
The Homelessness and TB Toolkit is an online resource developed to assist both public health programs and homeless service agencies in the important work of TB control among people experiencing homelessness. The toolkit contains guidelines, forms, signs, educational materials, articles, and other resources...
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Social Service Providers
2014
The goal of these materials is to teach patients about TB infection and to motivate them to start and complete treatment if diagnosed. The materials are designed to encourage provider-patient interactions for active learning through the process of testing and treatment decisions. There are four materials in this series and it is suggested to use the materials as a continuum, as they build upon each other.
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Persons With LTBI
2014
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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2014
This timeline shows TB innovations throughout history.
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2014
This website provides information regarding pediatric TB. Treatment challenges as well as the scope of the problem are discussed.
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2014
This animated video provides an overview of TB and calls for a world with zero TB deaths.
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2014
This document contains an overview of what TB Care I is doing to help with the fight against childhood TB.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2014
The TB Voices Project documented individuals' TB experience using photos, video/voice recordings, and/or their written story. Twenty-eight people from across King and Snohomish County, Washington shared their TB experiences through the TB Voices Project in 2013. The website contains: video and audio clips of more than 25 TB stories; a 13 minute video applicable for all audiences; and an active blog.
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Community Leaders
Parents/Families
Persons With LTBI
2014
The series of 5 short documentary videos presents stories from healthcare workers in the TB field, examining the risks, the struggles and possible solutions to protecting this critical workforce, including new TB vaccines. The TB Unmasked website, www.tbunmasked.org, also offers healthcare workers resources to learn more about protecting themselves, and features written stories submitted by healthcare workers around the world...
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Policy Makers
2014
This pamphlet answers frequently asked questions about TB. The pamphlet explains TB, its symptoms, transmission, methods of diagnosis, prevention, the BCG vaccine, and treatment.
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Persons With LTBI
2014
This report summarizes provisional TB surveillance data reported to CDC’s National Tuberculosis Surveillance System in 2012. A total of 9,951 new TB cases were reported for an incidence of 3.2 cases per 100,000 population, which is a decrease of 6.1 percent from the incidence in 2011. TB incidence rate among foreign-born persons in the United States was 11...
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Researchers
2013
This report provides provisional CDC guidelines for FDA-approved and unapproved, or off-label, uses of bedaquiline in certain populations who were not included in the clinical trials for the drug. These guidelines are intended for health-care professionals who might use bedaquiline for the treatment of MDR TB for indicated and off-label uses...
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Researchers
2013
This report presents summary data for TB cases verified and counted in 2012. The data were submitted to CDC’s Division of TB Elimination by 60 reporting areas, 50 states, the District of Columbia, New York City, Puerto Rico, and seven other jurisdictions in the Pacific and Caribbean. The report contains an Executive Commentary, which provides highlights of the 2012 data, Technical Notes including information about how the data were collected and reported, seven major data sections, and appendices...
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2013
The new edition of this guide provides a background on basic epidemiology for TB program staff, as well as descriptions of how these concepts can be put to practical use. In addition to basic epidemiology for tuberculosis, this guide contains information on epidemiologic and statistical techniques that are used in research studies and a chapter on TB genotyping...
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Managers and Supervisors
2013
