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Tuberculosis Case Management: A Guide for Nurses

The guide provides information on the TB case management process. Information covered in the guide describes activities of TB case management, patient-centered strategies for improving adherence, and TB in special circumstances.

Health Educators/Communicators Managers and Supervisors Medical and Nursing School Students
2017
The Tuberculosis Behavioral and Social Science Research Forum: Planting the Seeds for Future Research. Proceedings

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...

Health Educators/Communicators Managers and Supervisors
2005
Diseases of Poverty and the 10/90 Gap

The "10/90 Gap" is the idea that only 10% of global health research is devoted to conditions accounting for 90% of the global disease burden. This report dispels the myth of the 10/90 Gap in health research including research regarding tuberculosis. It calls for a more constructive approach to improving access to medicines for the poor.

International Agencies
2004
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