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What You Need to Know About Tuberculosis

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What You Need to Know About Tuberculosis

The purpose of this flipbook is to assist healthcare workers in providing patient education around TB testing, TB infection and TB disease. Panels for patients include simple text and images to reinforce key messages and corresponding panels for providers include easy to deliver script and teaching points.

Author:

Global Tuberculosis Institute at Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Audiences:

Health Educators/Communicators

Topic:

Diagnosis, General TB Information, Treatment - Latent TB infection (Inactive TB), Treatment- Directly Observed Therapy (DOT)

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