This webpage highlights groundbreaking research on tuberculosis (TB) bacteria, which reveals that TB exhibits a consistent growth rate throughout its life cycle, defying conventional bacterial growth patterns. The study uncovers new insights into TB’s survival strategies, emphasizing the need for research directly on pathogens to improve treatment approaches...
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Health Professionals
Researchers
2024
This 3-page resource is a conversation guide for healthcare providers about how to talk to patients about latent TB infection.
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Civil Surgeons
General Public
Nurses
Persons With LTBI
Physicians
2022
TB is preventable and treatable, and the world has set the objective of ending the disease by 2030. TB preventive treatment is one of the best ways to keep individuals and families safe from TB, which in turn helps communities become—and remain—TB free. Read more in this report.
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2022
This fact sheet provides an overview what the TB Elimination Alliance is, what it does, and the mini-grant program's efforts.
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Asian or Pacific Islander persons
Community Based Organizations
2022
Raise awareness about the link between LTBI and TB disease, address misperceptions, decrease stigma, and encourage and facilitate testing and treatment for LTBI and TB. Increase awareness of the recommended shorter treatment regimen for LTBI.
Create a culturally and linguistically appropriate LTBI and TB education, training and community engagement resources and activities that resonate with high priority AA and NH/PI communities...
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At Risk Persons
2021
Infographic for New York City citizens on how to stop TB.
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General Public
2021
The revised guidelines includes recommendations for specific administrative controls, environmental controls, and respiratory protection controls.
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Community Based Organizations
Health Educators/Communicators
Nurses
Physicians
2020
Since January of 2016, we have seen an increase of multidrug-resistance tuberculosis (MDR TB) in Minnesota. The severe increase in these rates is due to an MDR TB outbreak within the Hmong community of the east metro. What is very concerning about this outbreak is that it is not regular TB, but MDR TB...
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2018
This poster in black, grey, and white, promotes World TB Day March 24, 2014. World TB Day provides an opportunity to raise awareness about TB and to support the worldwide fight against TB.
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General Public
2014
This poster in black, grey, and white, promotes World TB Day March 24, 2014. World TB Day provides an opportunity to raise awareness about TB and to support the worldwide fight against TB.
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General Public
2014
This handbook is a reference tool for use by national tuberculosis (TB) program managers, clinicians and nurses, public health decision-makers and technical and implementing partners committed to the prevention, care, diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant TB.
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Community Based Organizations
Health Educators/Communicators
International Agencies
2014
This webinar is a public forum and panel discussion convened to examine the global health challenges that TB presents, examine the limitations and challenges of current treatment options, and discuss the search for new and better TB drugs and other tools. A podcast, speakers' biographies, and a transcript is also available...
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General Public
2014
This pamphlet provides information for persons diagnosed with TB about talking with a healthcare provider during a contact investigation. It also provides guidance about what an individual should do if named as a contact.
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General Public
2014
This information sheet discusses TB and the risk for international travelers. It explains TB transmission, multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains of the disease, and how drug resistance occurs. The information sheet considers whether international travelers are at risk of MDR or XDR TB while traveling, the risk of acquiring TB on an airplane, how TB can be prevented, TB vaccine, and what an individual should do before traveling internationally and if an individual thinks that he/she may have been exposed to someone with TB disease...
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General Public
2012
This fact sheet discusses TB and how it is affected by the HIV. It defines TB and explains the difference between TB infection and latent TB infection. The fact sheet advises that HIV weakens the immune system increasing the chance that in people with HIV and latent TB, the TB germs will become active and attack the body causing TB disease...
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General Public
2012
