This fact sheet provides information on the global burden of TB, TB targets, and the new Stop TB Strategy.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2006
This is an achievement report about the Global Drug Facility (GDF), a key initiative of the STOP TB Partnership, which has had a positive impact on the treatment of millions of TB patients globally since its establishment in 2001. By providing high-quality TB drugs to over 4.4 million people in some of the world's poorest countries, it has helped to save lives and has significantly strengthened global TB control efforts.
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International Agencies
2005
This brochure contains information on Cure-TB, a referral program for tuberculosis patients and their contacts moving between the US and Mexico.
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2004
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.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2009
This book was developed to assist in the management of TB and HIV/AIDS programs that are implementing or planning to implement collaborative TB/HIV activities. It is intended to facilitate the collection of standardized data and help in the interpretation and dissemination of these data for program improvement...
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Community Leaders
International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2015
This fact sheet explains that DOTS can reduce household poverty by averting (1) the loss of income, (2) the cost of inadequate treatment, (3) the socio-economic costs of coping by families, (4) malnutrition, and (5) death.
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2002
This guide is divided into three major parts. The first part is designed to provide the Contact Investigator with the essential HIV/AIDS information he or she will need when engaging in a family-friendly discussion to encourage TB contacts to agree to HIV counseling and testing. The second is designed to give TB program managers guidelines for implementing a program tailored to their jurisdiction...
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Health Educators/Communicators
Managers and Supervisors
2004
This book is directed specifically to national TB control programs and their partners. It is intended to help select and implement the steps needed to ensure that the guiding principles of equity and poverty reduction are translated into practical measures - and that these practical measures are integrated into the national TB services and linked to broader poverty alleviation efforts...
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2005
The purpose of this document is to highlight cases in which Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) interventions have contributed to a positive outcome of tuberculosis (TB) control activities directed to a range of audiences and settings. It is intended for on-the-ground stakeholders who are interested in successfully integrating ACSM strategies and activities into TB control programming, as well as for decision-makers who can provide greater political and financial support for ACSM activities at the national, sub-national and international level.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Outreach Workers
2010
This document reinforces the five essential elements of the DOTS strategy.
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International Agencies
2002
The questionnaire is a survey instrument that can be used to determine which health-care staff are involved in managing TB patients at the primary care level in National TB Programs that follow the DOTS strategy, and to assess the time needed to perform the tasks related to TB care. It is intended as a survey instrument, not as a planning tool.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2008
This report is the background document of the 2nd ad hoc Committee on the TB epidemic. The committee has reviewed progress in global TB control, examined constraints to improved TB control in high-burden countries, and sought solutions to these constraints through a wide consultative process during 2003...
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2004
This manual has been written with the aim of developing the knowledge, awareness, and skills of primary health care providers. Primary health care providers can play an important role in tuberculosis control through early detection of the disease, referral for treatment, and involvement in directly observed therapy...
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2004
This report highlights the work of community-based organizations and people living with HIV/AIDS in advocating for coordinated TB and HIV policies and services in their countries. The report presents case studies from Indonesia, Mexico, Sierra Leon, South Africa, Ukraine, and the Caribbean, highlighting community advocates’ strategies, achievements, and lessons learned.
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Community Leaders
Policy Makers
Social Service Providers
2006
This report describes community-based tuberculosis care in Latin America, and field visits to selected community-based TB care projects to understand the origin, performance, acceptability, effectiveness, and sustainability of some existing DOTS projects. Three sites in Colombia and two in Bolivia, where the DOTS strategy is already implemented, were visited...
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Community Leaders
Managers and Supervisors
2002