This pocket guide presents information regarding body mass index (BMI) and its relationship to TB relapse. BMI tables, BMI formulas, and a definition of TB relapse are included.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
2010
The STOP TB Partnership's theme for World TB Day 2010 is "On the Move Against Tuberculosis: Innovate to accelerate action." This year's campaign will focus on individuals around the world who have found new ways to stop TB and can serve as an inspiration to others. The idea is to recognize people who have introduced a variety of innovations in a variety of settings...
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General Public
2010
This book provides guidelines to national TB program managers, policy makers, nongovernmental organizations, and donor agencies on effective management of TB. The guidelines focus on the technical and managerial aspects of treatment.
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Health Professionals
Policy Makers
2010
This tool estimates the risk of active tuberculosis for an individual with a tuberculin skin test reaction of 5+mm, based on his/her clinical profile. It is intended for adults tested with standard tuberculin (5 TU PPDS, or 2 TU RT-23).
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Health Professionals
2010
Popularly known as “The Orange Guide”, the 6th edition of this small book provides practical guidance to health workers on the front line of TB control. It includes sections on HIV, MDR-TB and a review of the recommended treatment regimens.
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Health Professionals
International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2010
The Truth About TB website is part of a new campaign to get people talking and thinking about TB. The campaign is being developed by TB Alert, the UK's national Tuberculosis charity. The website includes stories by people who have been affected by TB, questions and answers about TB, and a variety of resources.
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General Public
Policy Makers
2010
This new report on anti-tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance by the World Health Organization (WHO) updates “Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world: Report No. 4” published by WHO in 2008. It summarizes the latest data and provides latest estimates of the global epidemic of multidrug and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB)...
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Health Professionals
International Agencies
Policy Makers
2010
This report assesses how and why the IOM's tuberculosis elimination plan has not been fully implemented and provides updated action plans to move forward on its recommendations to accelerate progress toward tuberculosis elimination in the United States.
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Policy Makers
2010
This slide set was developed as an accompaniment to the guidelines Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional and Detention Facilities: Recommendations from CDC.
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Health Professionals
Correctional Facility Staff
2010
The ILO and WHO, with the help of other partners in the world of work, have collaborated to develop international guidelines of TB management at the workplace. These outline how any business, large or small, or public sector workplace can make a contribution to TB management and control.
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Managers and Supervisors
2010
This report provides guidance to U.S. public health officials, health-care providers, and laboratory workers for use of FDA-approved IGRAs in the diagnosis of M. tuberculosis infection in adults and children. In brief, TSTs and IGRAs (QFT-G, QFT-GIT, and T-Spot) may be used as aids in diagnosing M. tuberculosis infection...
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Health Professionals
2010
This fact sheet provides guidance to health-care providers for use of IGRAs in the diagnosis of M. tuberculosis infection in adults and children.
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Health Professionals
2010
The Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center in collaboration with the Lung Health Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed TB-specific cultural competency guides. These guides have been adapted into a series of “quick reference guides.” There are quick reference guides for the countries that have accounted for more than 60% of the TB cases among foreign-born persons over the past five years: Mexico, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, China, Guatemala, and Haiti.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
Outreach Workers
2010
This fact sheet focuses on the need to reduce poverty and strengthen health systems as part of TB control.
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Policy Makers
2010
This field guide is a companion document to WHO's "Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis."
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Health Professionals
2010
This hospital discharge planning checklist may be used by health care workers to ensure that all of the appropriate steps have been taken in order to discharge a TB patient from the hospital.
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Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2010
This manual gives guidance for the x-ray reading in TB Suspects and provides a useful tool for better diagnosing of smear-negative TB in adult TB suspects.
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Health Professionals
International Agencies
2010
View this webinar to become familiar with the mechanism of action of Fluoroquinolones, medical trials investigating the role of Fluoroquinolones, and current recommendations and potential future roles of Fluoroquinolones in the treatment of tuberculosis.
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Health Professionals
2010
The purpose of this Handbook is to provide a practical source of information on laws related to TB control to help public health practitioners and their legal counsel to: (1) understand the legal environment for the control of communicable diseases, including TB; (2) identify and explain legal issues in TB control; and (3) consider the use of tools for improving TB control.
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Health Professionals
Policy Makers
2010
The purpose of the Menu is to provide a set of optional provisions for consideration by public health officials and their legal counsel in their efforts to eliminate tuberculosis.
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Health Professionals
Policy Makers
2010
