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Know Your Rights: Tuberculosis Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment

Booklet
Know Your Rights: Tuberculosis Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment

This guide is for people with tuberculosis (TB), people at risk for TB, and their caretakers. The guide contains information on what services you have the right to receive, as well as your rights related to TB prevention, testing, treatment, and care.

Author:

Treatment Action Group, TAG

Audiences:

American Indian or Alaska Native persons, Asian or Pacific Islander persons, Community Leaders, Health Educators/Communicators, Hispanic or Latino persons, Long-term Residential Care Providers, Migrant Workers, Non-U.S.-born persons, People experiencing homelessness, Social Service Providers

Topic:

Advocacy/Communications, TB Treatment, Training, Treatment- TB Disease

Country of Origin:

United States

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