This online, self-paced mini-course series consists of 9 modules lasting under two hours each. The modules provide brief introductions to common challenges that persons with TB may face. The modules also present information about strategies and services for effective intervention, management, and treatment in populations at increased risk for TB...
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Civil Surgeons
Nurses
Physicians
2023
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
This guidebook can be used by primary care clinics and other partners to assist with strengthening their setting’s TB prevention activities. The guidebook was developed by staff from the TB Free California initiative, a project of the California Department of Public Health.
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Nurses
Physicians
2022
This guide provides clinicians with an overview of drug-resistant tuberculosis. The guide includes tools that can be used by providers who participate in the management of patients with drug-resistant TB.
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Civil Surgeons
Nurses
Physicians
2022
TB 101 for Health Care Workers is a Web-based course designed to educate health care workers about basic concepts related to TB prevention and control in the United States. The target audience for the course includes newly hired TB program staff and health care workers in areas related to TB (such as individuals who work in correctional facilities or community health organizations and other health care settings)...
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Correctional Facility Staff
Health Educators/Communicators
Medical and Nursing School Students
Nurses
Outreach Workers
Physicians
2021
These educational modules are designed to provide basic information about tuberculosis (TB) in a self-study format for new TB health care workers. This instructional packet includes a series of five modules, an introduction, a glossary, and content covering transmission, pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment of TB infection and disease, and infection control...
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Outreach Workers
2019
A free online course that is designed to cover all aspects of the management of TB infection, including the diagnosis and treatment of TB. After taking the online course, you will:
-Understand the rationale of TB preventive treatment
-Identify at-risk groups for TB infection and disease
-Appreciate the strengths and limitations of current diagnostic tests for TB infection
-Know the range of treatment options for TB infection
-Become familiar with issues associated with implementation of TB prevention services in the field
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2019
The 2019 Maryland Department of Health Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis serves a resource for Maryland healthcare providers and local health departments. The guidelines were approved by TB experts and TB clinicians within Maryland.
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Physicians
Nurses
2019
The LTBI toolkit was developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for primary care physicians who may see patients that are at an increased risk of TB infection.
The kit includes:
-The CDC guidebook, “Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Guide for Primary Health Providers”
- An article from the August 2017 issue of the American Journal of Nursing titled, “Tuberculosis: A New Screening Recommendation and an Expanded Approach to Elimination in the United States”
-A tri-fold brochure listing resources for information about TB (the PA TB Program, CDC and the Global TB Institute at Rutgers)
-CDC infographics about LTBI and TB Disease
-CDC factsheets about TB testing and treatment
The toolkit is packaged in a box that measures 13” wide by 9 1/2” high by 3” deep.
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Health Educators/Communicators
2018
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
Outreach Workers
2018
This is a planning document designed to facilitate the integration of strong public-private mix components into national TB strategic plans that are supposed to be the basis for Global Fund proposals and national budgeting processes, and will help drive a more comprehensive approach to provider engagement in TB care and prevention.
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Civil Surgeons
Community Leaders
Health Educators/Communicators
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
International Agencies
Lab Personnel
Managers and Supervisors
Outreach Workers
Policy Makers
2017
This educational flipbook facilitates the work of promotoras, outreach workers, and other public health workers involved in the care of individuals with TB, HIV, and other co-morbidities. The flipchart includes material in English and Spanish.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2017
The Self-Study Modules, 1-5 is part of a series of educational modules designed to provide information about TB in a self-study format. This slide set was developed as an accompaniment to the print-based Self-Study Modules, 1-5 to aid in the presentation of module content for a facilitator-led training...
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Outreach Workers
2016
This online course covers how to diagnose, treat, and prevent childhood TB. The course consists of six modules: epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, TB/HIV, prevention, and practice. The content is based on the World Health Organization's "Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes on the Management of Tuberculosis in Children" and the Union's "Desk Guide for Diagnosis and Management of TB in Children...
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2015
This is a web-based course that provides clinicians with the basic concepts of diagnosing and treating latent TB infection and TB disease. The course is based on the print-based Core Curriculum and includes chapters on transmission, pathogenesis, testing, diagnosis, treatment, and infection control.
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2015
