This fact sheet provides brief information on M. bovis, as well as safety and infection control measures for individuals handling carcasses of animals known or suspected to have TB.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
Lab Personnel
2018
This guideline is developed by the Global Health Initiative, World Health Organization, UNAIDS and the Global Partnership to Stop TB for the joint management of HIV/AIDS and TB in the workplace.
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Managers and Supervisors
2004
This guide specifically addresses issues such as stigma and work discrimination, and also provides practical recommendations on how to establish an effective monitoring system.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2013
This eTool focuses on some of the hazards and controls found in the hospital setting, and describes standard requirements as well as recommended safe work practices for employee safety and health.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2007
This fact sheet gives an overview of TB infection-control measures and explains how to determine the infectiousness of TB patients.
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Managers and Supervisors
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2012
This guide provides an epidemiologic profile of TB in health care workers, as well as barriers in policy and practice, such as inadequate implementation of infection control.
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Policy Makers
2016
The handbook provides information on safety issues involved in the processing and management of samples potentially containing Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Topics covered in the handbook include safe working practices, laboratory infrastructure and layout, personal protective equipment, and more...
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Lab Personnel
2019
In this webinar, participants will learn about trauma informed care principles and practices that create safer and more supportive healthcare environments. The webinar is intended for nurses who treat and manage the care of patients with TB and LTBI.
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Nurses
2021
This handbook is intended to give guidance to those responsible for developing country-specific strategic plans and annual implementation plans for HRD for comprehensive TB control within overall HRH development. The central theme of this handbook points to the need for close collaboration between, and coordination among, national TB control programmes and the departments of health system management or human resources for health of the Ministry of Health and their respective partners...
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Managers and Supervisors
Policy Makers
2009
This guide answers questions about using respirators to prevent TB transmission.
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1995
This fact sheet details the three levels of TB infection control in health-care settings, considerations for selection of respirators, and implementing a respiratory protection program.
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Managers and Supervisors
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2010
This book presents information about implementing, maintaining, and evaluating respirator protection programs in health care facilities.
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Managers and Supervisors
Health Educators/Communicators
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
1999
This videotape and CD-ROM provide guidance to respiratory protection administrators in the development of programs to prevent TB through respirator use.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2000
This fact sheet discusses TB testing for health care workers, people at high risk, and people with latent TB infection or active TB disease. This fact sheet is also available in Spanish.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2011
This report presents the findings of a short-term study to examine the risk of TB among health care workers. It discusses the possible effects of federal guidelines, responses to resurgent TB, and proposed strategies for eliminating TB in the United States and worldwide.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2001
