This poster is a one-page visual for people to know that they can have latent TB infection and still feel healthy. The poster also encourages patients to see their doctor to be tested for TB infection and emphasizes that TB infection can be treated.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
2014
This material was developed for clinicians to use with patients that are prescribed the three months of daily isoniazid plus rifampin (3HR) regimen for the treatment of latent TB infection. There is space to write treatment information, medication intake, and doctor/clinic contact information. There is also a checklist of signs and symptoms that may develop while using the 3HR regimen...
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Health Professionals
Persons With LTBI
Physicians
2022
This material was developed for clinicians to use with patients that are prescribed the four months daily rifampin (4R) regimen for the treatment of latent TB infection. There is space to write treatment information, medication intake, and doctor/clinic contact information. There is also a checklist of signs and symptoms that may develop while using the 4R regimen...
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Health Professionals
Persons With LTBI
Physicians
2022
A fact sheet on active TB disease, including information on how TB is spread, TB tests, and directly observed therapy.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2020
.This job aid can be used by healthcare workers to view dosage information for bedaquiline. The resource also provides visual information for patients.
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Health Professionals
2017
Users can make customized bilingual handouts by selecting from 41 TB related chapters and over 30 languages.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
Outreach Workers
2015
ExplainTB is a mobile app that provides written and audiovisual education for TB patients, relatives, and others. The app has over 40 chapters of TB information available in more than 30 languages.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
Outreach Workers
2018
This report details the steps that governments of countries with high burdens of TB-HIV and their partners have taken to turn a coordinated response to TB-HIV into reality at the country level, as well as the remaining gaps.
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Health Professionals
International Agencies
Policy Makers
2016
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...
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Health Educators/Communicators
2009
This guideline presents information about the prevention of TB in health care facilities.
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Non-U.S.-born persons
Health Professionals
1999
This video provides a step-by-step guide for patients on how to collect sputum at home. The video is available in 18 languages (Burmese, English, French, Hmong, Karen, Karenni, Khmer, Kunama, Lao, Mandarin Chinese, Nepali, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tigrinya, Urdu, and Vietnamese).
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General Public
2011
This pamphlet discusses the use of the drug isoniazid (INH) to treat latent TB infection. It provides information on the length of treatment and side effects.
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Non-U.S.-born persons
Persons With LTBI
2004
A fact sheet with information of collecting sputum for TB, including content on why sputum testing is necessary.
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General Public
Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2018
These new guidelines supersede previous WHO policy documents on the management of LTBI in people living with HIV, household contacts of people with active TB, other groups at risk of developing TB, and for LTBI testing. The consolidated guidelines are expected to provide the basis and rationale for the development of national guidelines for LTBI management, adapted to the national and local epidemiology of TB, the availability of resources, the health infrastructure and other national and local determinants...
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Civil Surgeons
Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
International Agencies
Lab Personnel
2018
In this comic book, Luis Figo and his friends play a game of football/soccer against a team of TB germs. The book aims to educate young readers about the basics of TB.
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Children/Adolescents
Health Educators/Communicators
2008
The MDR-TB Planning Toolkit is designed to help assist countries develop or strengthen a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) component within their national TB strategy or plan. Eight tools contain worksheets to assist the user through key planning steps. The toolkit is intended for countries, technical partners, international organizations, and donors.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2012
This tool will assist countries and partners in conducting assessments of national tuberculosis (TB) programs to identify strengths and gaps related to preventing, diagnosing, and treating multidrug-resistant TB. It provides the starting point for planning for new activities to address drug-resistant TB...
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2009
This guide assists in making TB control policy decisions and plans for successfully introducing fixed-dose combination drugs (FDCs). This guide is intended for national TB program managers, DOTS strategy implementers, drug procurement officers/personnel, DOT providers, and drug regulatory authorities...
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Health Professionals
Policy Makers
2002
A fact sheet on the QuantiFERON (also called QFT test), including information on how test results are interpreted. There is also content on the difference between latent TB infection and TB disease.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2016
The Global Drug Facility (GDF) is a mechanism to expand access to, and availability of, high-quality anti-TB drugs and diagnostics to support the Stop TB Strategy.
This document outlines progress that GDF has made to date, what still needs to be done and where high-level advocacy could help GDF to further scale up its activities.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2011