This report summarizes the National Tuberculosis Indicators Project (NTIP) results from 2002-2008, the most recent five-year period for which data are available. NTIP is a secure, web-based monitoring system that uses routinely collected surveillance data on individual TB cases to measure performance of state and local TB programs, help programs prioritize improvement efforts and focus on key TB control activities, and track progress toward national program objectives...
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2010
This report is a white paper outlining the vision of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) for reducing health disparities and promoting health equity related to conditions of interest. NCHHSTP is committed to promoting awareness, engagement, and action on the many factors that can affect the health of all; to addressing these factors in the policy, practice, and research activities of NCHHSTP; and to building partnerships on every level...
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Black or African American persons
2010
In response to the urgent need to control the spread of TB, the U.S. Congress passed the Reauthorization Act supporting a substantial increase in USG funding for TB treatment and control over a five-year period. The Reauthorization Act requests the development of a USG Global Tuberculosis Strategy.
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International Agencies
2010
This Guide describes how to make TB services 100% tobacco-free, then presents ‘ABC for TB’, an intervention for TB programmes to help patients quit smoking and to promote smokefree homes for patients and families. It advocates keeping cessation simple, expanding it widely through the health services and reaching communities...
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Health Educators/Communicators
2010
This information card provides information on the multiple significant drug interactions between TB medications; specifically, INH, rifampin, and other medications and the effect of the interaction. It also provides information on food interactions with TB drugs.
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Nurses
Outreach Workers
Physicians
2010
This information card lists possible adverse reactions and/or side effects patients may have to TB medication.
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2010
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
2010
This poster, designed for community and public settings like schools and child care facilities, urges patients to cover their noses and mouths when coughing to help stop the spread of germs.
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Community Leaders
Health Educators/Communicators
2010
This fact sheet details the three levels of TB infection control in health-care settings, considerations for selection of respirators, and implementing a respiratory protection program.
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Managers and Supervisors
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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Policy Makers
2010
