This toolkit serves as a comprehensive resource for communities affected by tuberculosis. It offers practical tools and guidance to support TB advocacy, treatment, and care, with a focus on marginalized populations. It also provides strategies for addressing barriers to care, promoting patient-centered approaches, and advocating for policy changes to strengthen global TB prevention and control efforts...
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Educators
General Public
Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
2025
This information sheet provides essential information about tuberculosis (TB), including its causes, how it spreads, and the differences between latent TB infection (LTBI) and active TB disease. It outlines testing methods, treatment options, and the importance of early diagnosis and adherence to treatment to prevent transmission...
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Health Professionals
Physicians
2024
This webpage highlights groundbreaking research on tuberculosis (TB) bacteria, which reveals that TB exhibits a consistent growth rate throughout its life cycle, defying conventional bacterial growth patterns. The study uncovers new insights into TB’s survival strategies, emphasizing the need for research directly on pathogens to improve treatment approaches...
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Health Professionals
Researchers
2024
A poster that describes the TB blood test, explains what a positive blood test means, and emphasizes that TB is treatable. This material was designed to be displayed in civil surgeon offices to explain TB screening as part of the immigration medical examination.
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Non-U.S.-born persons
2023
This pocket guide is intended to assist clinicians in managing patients with HIV and LTBI, and drug-susceptible pulmonary TB disease. The guide includes signs and symptoms, adult dosing, dosage forms, drug-drug interactions, side effects, and patient counseling points.
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Civil Surgeons
Nurses
Physicians
2023
This online course was developed to help TB nurses and clinicians learn about TB laboratory testing best practices. Topics covered in the course include specimen preparation, detection, identification, drug susceptibility testing, and supplemental testing. The course includes resources, a glossary, and a job aid...
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Nurses
2023
This tool can be used by health professionals to help identify adults that may need TB testing. The resource also includes space to document the results of the TB assessment.
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Nurses
Physicians
2023
This tool can be used by health professionals to help identify health care workers that may need TB testing. The resource also includes space to document the results of the TB assessment.
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Nurses
Physicians
2023
This tool can be used by correctional and detention facilities to help identify their TB risk classification. The resource also provides recommendations to implement from the North Dakota Department of Health.
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Correctional Facility Staff
2023
This tool can be used by health professionals to help identify children that may need TB testing. The resource also includes space to document the results of the TB assessment.
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Nurses
Physicians
2023
The interagency field guide contains information on strategic approaches, guidance, and innovations for TB prevention and care interventions in humanitarian settings. The guide focuses on the managerial/organizational aspects of TB interventions. References are also provided for the clinical aspects of TB interventions...
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Government Agencies
Nurses
Physicians
International Agencies
2022
This program manual provides information on the NYC Department of Health’s policies, protocols, and recommendations for the prevention, treatment, and control of TB.
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Nurses
Physicians
2022
A one-page visual overview of the testing and treatment of inactive TB that can be used as a poster.
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Civil Surgeons
General Public
Nurses
Persons With LTBI
Physicians
2022
This 3-page resource is a conversation guide for healthcare providers about how to talk to patients about latent TB infection.
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Civil Surgeons
General Public
Nurses
Persons With LTBI
Physicians
2022
This webinar provides knowledge on Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) blood tests. Participants will learn how IGRAs are used to identify past or recent infection with the Micobacterium Tubercuculosis. Participants will also gain informaion on how to identify which test resutls require follow-up...
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Nurses
2022
