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Decrease in Reported Tuberculosis Cases – United States, 2009 This report discusses the results from the National TB Surveillance System for 2009. A total of 11,540 TB cases were reported in the United States for a TB rate of 3.8 cases per 100,000 population. This was a decrease of 11.4 percent from the rate of 4.2 per 100,000 reported for 2008. This rate was the greatest single-year decrease ever recorded and the lowest recorded rate since national TB surveillance began in 1953... Health Professionals	2010
Monitoring Tuberculosis Programs - National Tuberculosis Indicator Project, United States, 2002-2008 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... Health Professionals	2010
Establishing a Holistic Framework to Reduce Inequities in HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and Tuberculosis in the United States 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... Black or African American persons	2010
Mortality Among Patients with Tuberculosis and Associations With HIV Status – United States, 1993-2008 This report provides data on the mortality among patients with TB and associations with HIV infection. To investigate the impact of HIV on risk for death during TB treatment in the United States, data were analyzed for all culture-positive patients with TB from 1993 to 2008. The proportion that died was determined and stratified by HIV test result... Health Professionals	2010
Updated Guidelines for Using Interferon Gamma Release Assays to Detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection – United States, 2010 This serial presents updated guidelines to US public health officials, healthcare providers, and laboratory workers for use of FDA-approved interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) to diagnose both active and latent TB infection in adults and children. These guidelines include use of the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube Test (QFT-GIT) and the T-SPOT... Health Professionals	2010
Tuberculosis Adverse Drug Events This information card lists possible adverse reactions and/or side effects patients may have to TB medication. Health Professionals	2010
Tuberculosis Medication Drug and Food Interactions 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. Health Professionals Nurses Outreach Workers Physicians	2010
Cover Your Cough: Stop the Spread of Germs that Make You and Others Sick 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. Community Leaders Health Educators/Communicators	2010
Respiratory Protection in Health-Care Settings 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. Health Professionals Managers and Supervisors Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers	2010
Empowering Communities for TB Advocacy: The TAG-ICW Model This publication by the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) provides lessons learned from two years of capacity building for HIV treatment activists. Policy makers, activists, and donors can integrate these lessons learned into their tuberculosis (TB) and TB/HIV activities advocacy work. Community Leaders Policy Makers	2009
Tuberculosis - A Comprehensive Clinical Reference This book provides vital information about tuberculosis, including drug-resistant strains of the disease. Coverage includes which patient populations face an elevated risk of infection, as well as which therapies are appropriate and how to correctly monitor ongoing treatment so that patients are cured... Health Educators/Communicators Health Professionals	2009
Environmental Control for Tuberculosis: Basic Upper-Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Guidelines for Healthcare Settings The purpose of this document is to examine the different parameters necessary for an effective upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) system and to provide guidelines to healthcare managers, facility designers, engineers, and industrial hygienists on the parameters necessary to install and maintain an effective upper-room UVGI system. Health Professionals Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers	2009
Getting the Message Across: Public Health Campaigns (1948–2008) This book takes a historical look at the power of posters to persuade people to change their behaviour. It charts decades of changing health priorities, advertising trends and government regulations, inviting the reader to reflect on how public health campaigns have evolved, and how they could be improved... Health Educators/Communicators	2009
WHO report 2009: Global Tuberculosis Control: Epidemiology, Strategy, Financing WHO's report on Global TB Control compiles data from over 200 countries and territories each year, monitoring the scale and direction of TB epidemics, implementation and impact of the Stop TB Strategy, and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. Order online: http://apps.who.int/bookorders/anglais/detart1... Health Professionals International Agencies Managers and Supervisors Policy Makers	2009
Home Alone or Time Out: A Patient’s Story about TB Isolation This resource provides a patient’s perspective by presenting one patient’s story of being on home isolation. Persons With LTBI	2009
Tuberculosis: New Faces of an Old Disease This Special Report from Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders highlights the challenges, such as TB/HIV coinfection and drug resistance, faced in the fight against TB. The report also provides real-life examples of people living with TB. International Agencies Policy Makers	2009
Activity Report of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 2008 This report details the activities of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) for the year 2008. International Agencies Policy Makers	2009
A Critical Analysis of Funding Trends, 2005-2007: An Update Treatment Action Group (TAG) analyzes and reports on the annual funding of tuberculosis (TB ) research and development (R&D). The top 40 TB research funding institutions were surveyed for actual disbursements made for TB R&D in fiscal years 2005, 2006, and now 2007. The three-year data reveal trends in funding and demonstrates an alarming shortfall in the growth of TB R&D during the initial years covered by The Global Plan to Stop TB: 2006–2015. Health Professionals International Agencies Managers and Supervisors Policy Makers	2009
Tuberculosis and Public Health: Policy and Principles in Tuberculosis Control This book describes the national tuberculosis program model for preventing, controlling and treating tuberculosis. It reviews its historical background and scientific basis, as well as considering the context within which it is implemented, that is, countries with a high prevalence of tuberculosis. The author addresses the debates taking place not only within the tuberculosis community but also in the wider context of communicable disease control and health services organization in general. Health Professionals International Agencies Policy Makers	2009
On the Lake This documentary film, On the Lake—Life and Love in a Distant Place, by David Bettencourt and G. Wayne Miller, reminds people across the United States that tuberculosis was the number-one killer in their country in the not so distant past. The one-hour documentary, produced by Stop TB partner Eagle Peak Media, chronicles the lives, loves and losses of Rhode Islanders who were confined to a lakeside TB sanatorium in the first half of the 20th century, when no effective TB treatment was available... Community Leaders General Public Health Educators/Communicators Health Professionals Persons With LTBI Policy Makers	2009