The overall goal of the training course is to further develop the skills required to plan and implement collaborative TB/HIV activities based on the strategies for controlling TB and HIV/AIDS recommended by WHO.
Includes a manual for participants, a guide for facilitators, and a guide for the course director.
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Health Educators/Communicators
International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
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2006
The Stop TB Department (STB) of the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with technical partners, has revised the TB recording and reporting (R&R) system to align the forms and registers with the new Stop TB Strategy. The revision facilitates the monitoring of the six components of the Stop TB Strategy, which itself was developed to help achieve the Millenium Development Goals.
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2006
This toolbox contains sample letters, forms, and protocols that can be adapted and used by local programs to contact and follow-up with recent immigrants and refugees entering the US with a B classification.
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Managers and Supervisors
Civil Surgeons
2006
This document guides NTPs on how to engage all relevant health care providers in TB control and thereby promote the use of evidence-based, International Standards for TB Care. The experience and evidence on scaling up and sustaining PPM is now clearly emerging. The authors hope that this document will help countries to scale up PPM DOTS more rapidly and contribute significantly to achieving the TB-related Millennium Development Goal.
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Community Leaders
International Agencies
2006
This is a briefing document for policymakers, TB program staff, and health communicators on contemporary communication opportunities and challenges.
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2005
This World TB Day fact sheet provides information on the progress towards targets for case detection and cure in global TB control and in implementing the DOTS strategy.
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2005
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 report summarizes the recommendations of the Association of Public Health Laboratories Task Force on Tuberculosis Laboratory Services. The report describes in greater detail the actions and performance measures that were used to guide development and implementation of an integrated system for providing TB laboratory services...
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Lab Personnel
2005
This report is the proceedings of the Tuberculosis Behavioral and Social Science Research Forum held on December 10-11, 2003 in Atlanta, GA. The Forum's goal was to identify and prioritize TB behavioral and social science research needs, so that a research agenda for TB prevention, control, and treatment could be developed...
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Health Educators/Communicators
Managers and Supervisors
2005
This publication, developed by the WHO Stop TB Partnership, is a training course that consists of 14 modules, including a facilitator guide and answer sheets. This course provides District TB Coordinators the skills and knowledge needed to plan, supervise, implement, monitor and evaluate the activities of a district TB control program...
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Health Educators/Communicators
Managers and Supervisors
2005
As a member of the Stop TB Partnership, the Health and Development Networks moderated a six-month discussion on the Stop TB eForum on key roles and needs of front-line health workers in stopping tuberculosis. This publication describes key findings and recommendations from the discussions on the crucial role front-line health workers play in TB control.
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Community Leaders
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2005
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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2005
This report developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) describes a strategy to integrate management of respiratory conditions to improve TB case detection. The PAL aims to improve TB diagnosis and care by improving (1) the quality of respiratory care in primary health care (PHC) settings, and (2) the efficiency of respiratory service delivery within health systems.
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2005
This report presents a regional framework for addressing TB/HIV co-infection in the Western Pacific that is adapted to the epidemiological profile and health service system of the region and identifies areas in which both programs can complement each other to address TB/HIV.
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Policy Makers
2004
This report assesses the effectiveness, cost, and cost-effectiveness of the public-private mix DOTS (PPM-DOTS) program in pilot projects in Hyderabad and Delhi, India.
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International Agencies
2004
