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The Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis

This booklet explains the action and resources needed over the next five years for six working groups to expand, adapt, and improve DOTS, enabling the working groups to meet the 2005 global targets of setting the world on the road to the elimination of TB.

International Agencies Policy Makers
2003
An Expanded DOTS Framework for Effective Tuberculosis Control

This document reinforces the five essential elements of the DOTS strategy.

International Agencies
2002
What is the GDF?

This group of four fact sheets explain the origin and purpose of the Global Drug Facility (GDF), how the GDF works, how to apply to the GDF for a grant of TB drugs, and how to buy drugs through the GDF.

International Agencies
2002
DOTS Expansion Plan to Stop TB in the WHO European Region 2002-2006

This report explains the European DOTS Expansion plan to control TB. The plan highlights country needs and resource gaps, emphasizing collaboration with the governments of endemic countries, national and international agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The aim is to stimulate social and political commitment to achieving the global TB targets as part of the overall health system...

International Agencies Policy Makers
2002
Improving TB Drug Management: Accelerating DOTS Expansion

This book presents five papers that were used as background to a workshop on "Improving TB Drug Management: Accelerating DOTS Expansion" on June 2002, in Washington, DC. The papers address the weaknesses in drug management programs of certain countries and provide a framework for strengthening these programs through country-specific action plans.

International Agencies Managers and Supervisors Policy Makers
2002
Stop TB Annual Report 2001

This report summarizes the accomplishments and activities of the Stop TB Partnership in 2001.

Community Leaders
2002
What Is the Relationship Between TB and Poverty?

This fact sheet discusses the correlation between TB and poverty. It lists the steps in fighting TB and poverty, and states that DOTS is a global strategy to fight TB and alleviate poverty and inequity.

2002
Access to DOTS Reduces Household Poverty

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.

2002
World TB Day, the Start of A Five Year Campaign

This fact sheet reviews the history of World TB Day and lists past years' themes. It also discusses the aims of 2002's theme "Stop TB, Fight Poverty" launched by the Stop TB Partnership to start a five year campaign.

Health Educators/Communicators International Agencies
2002
Progressing Toward Tuberculosis Elimination in Low-Incidence Areas of the United States: Recommendations of the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 51(RR05): 1-16, May 3, 2002

This report is a statement of the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis (ACET) that examines the challenges to TB control in current low-incidence areas and offers recommendations for meeting those challenges. The purpose of this statement is to inform federal, state, and local public health officials, health-policy makers, and the general health-care community about the unique challenges of TB control and about the roles each can play to ensure progress toward elimination in those areas where the disease is becoming increasingly uncommon.

Policy Makers
2002
Community Contribution to TB Care: A Latin American Perspective

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...

Community Leaders Managers and Supervisors
2002
Designing a Tuberculosis Standardized Patient Program for Medical Students

This book is designed for medical school faculty who are interested in implementing a TB standardized patient program for medical school students.

Medical and Nursing School Students Policy Makers
2002
Respirators: Your TB Defense

This DVD is an educational program about TB prevention through respirator use. This video is also available in Real Media Streaming Videos and Downloadable Flash Video.

2002
Global TB Drug Facility

This fact sheet explains the purpose of the Global Drug Facility (GDF) to expand access to, and availability of, high-quality TB drugs to facilitate DOTS expansion, and to enable governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to implement effective TB control programs based upon the DOTS stragegy.

International Agencies
2001
Prospectus: Global TB Drug Facility: A Global Mechanism to Ensure Uninterrupted Access to Quality TB Drugs for DOTS Implementation

This prospectus is a culmination of input from Stop TB Partners including representatives from TB high-burden countries, UN agencies, Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), and foundations to develop the form, strategies, objectives, and governance of the Global TB Drug Facility (GDF).

International Agencies
2001