This fact sheet discusses TB transmission, infection, disease, diagnosis through a skin test, and treatment.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
2012
This fact sheet provides an overview of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB). This fact sheet covers definitions, symptoms, treatment, transmission, and prevention.
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Health Professionals
2012
This fact sheet provides an overview of the trends in tuberculosis. General information about TB and statistics on TB are covered in the fact sheet.
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General Public
Health Professionals
2012
This fact sheet provides an overview of Tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant TB and extensively drug resistant TB. The fact sheet covers definitions, how TB is spread, symptoms, risk factors, prevention and what to do before traveling internationally.
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General Public
Health Professionals
2012
This fact sheet describes what TB is and how one can be tested for it.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
2012
This fact sheet discusses treatment of drug-resistant TB. A table outlining potential drug regimens for treating drug-resistant TB is also provided.
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Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2012
This fact sheet gives an overview of TB infection-control measures and explains how to determine the infectiousness of TB patients.
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Health Professionals
Managers and Supervisors
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2012
This fact sheet is intended as a convenient but not comprehensive reference for managing the care of HIV-infected patients with drug susceptible TB.
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Health Professionals
2012
This fact sheet illustrates the timeline for various treatment regimens and monitoring techniques for persons with TB. It includes a timeline for drug regimens, providers, visits, sputum specimens, chest X-rays, and baseline and follow-up test.
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Health Professionals
2012
This report summarizes 2011 guidelines or recommendations published by multiple agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for prevention and control of HIV , viral hepatitis, STDs, and TB for persons who use drugs illicitly. It also summarizes existing evidence of effectiveness for practices to support delivery of integrated prevention services...
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Community Based Organizations
Government Agencies
Health Professionals
2012
This manual provides information about the guidelines and regulations pertaining to TB infection control, methods of reducing the risk of TB infection, and facility-specific guidelines for reducing the risk and dealing with potential exposure.
The manual contains information, forms, signs, and user-friendly tools for clinics, hospitals, homeless shelters, and other parties interested in the prevention and control of tuberculosis.
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Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
Lab Personnel
Managers and Supervisors
2011
This manual provides student health centers at colleges and universities with a guide for developing and implementing a TB screening and testing program. It includes many helpful resources that can be modified and used by individual campuses.
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Health Professionals
Social Service Providers
2011
This poster was designed educate members of the Navajo Nation about the conditions that put one at risk for TB.
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American Indian or Alaska Native persons
2011
The National Cancer Institute’s newly released publication, Making Data Talk: A Workbook, assists public health practitioners, scientists, health educators, clinicians, researchers, students, and statisticians to understand the critical roles data play in communication. The workbook offers recommendations about selecting and presenting data and introduces the Organize, Plan, Test, Integrate framework, which guides public health practitioners on how to present health data to lay audiences...
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
2011
The report outlines the current state of pediatric TB care, and looks at current practices, new developments and research needs in pediatric TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Out of the dark intends to act as a guide to treatment programs for implementation of the best standard of care currently available to children with TB, and to raise awareness of the need to continue to push for improvements in the management of childhood TB.
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Health Professionals
Policy Makers
2011
This curriculum is designed for training TB control professionals, NGOs, and civil society activists at national and local levels who are involved in advocacy, communication, and social mobilization (ACSM) efforts. It is designed to provide country-level staff with the specific knowledge and skills to plan, implement, and evaluate effective ACSM interventions linked to specific TB control objectives...
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Community Leaders
Health Professionals
Policy Makers
2011
ACTION’s analysis of the link between the burden of tuberculosis (TB) and the world’s most vulnerable children - those who are malnourished, orphans, or living with HIV - sheds light on a neglected epidemic. The report, Children and Tuberculosis: Exposing a Hidden Epidemic, is a reminder that TB is not a disease of the past and remains a leading killer, especially of children whose underdeveloped immune systems leave them particularly susceptible...
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Policy Makers
2011
The STOP TB Partnership's theme for World TB Day 2011 is "On the Move Against Tuberculosis: Transforming the Fight Towards Elimination." The campaign was inspired by the Global Plan to Stop TB 2011-2015: Transforming the Fight-Towards Elimination of Tuberculosis, which was launched by the Stop TB Partnership in October 2010...
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2011
This website contains multiple resources for World TB Day, including educational materials and tips for conducting community outreach.
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Health Educators/Communicators
2011
This monograph is a flip-book is intended as a tool to assist the TB patient education process with English-speaking TB patients and their family members. Sitting across from one and other, or side by side, black and white pages are to be viewed by the healthcare professional, while color pages are to be viewed by the patient...
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General Public
2011
