Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Country Specific Guides for Healthcare Professionals Working with Foreign-Born TB Clients

Country Specific Guides for Healthcare Professionals Working with Foreign-Born TB Clients

The Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center in collaboration with the Lung Health Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed a TB-specific cultural competency guide. The guide is comprised of an introduction and individual country-specific summaries for the birth countries most commonly reported by foreign-born cases treated in the United States. Each country summary contains the following information: country background; tuberculosis (TB) and HIV epidemiology; common misperceptions, beliefs, attitudes, and stigmatizing practices related to TB and HIV/AIDS; cultural courtesies to observe when interacting with patients and families; website links to translated patient education materials; and references. The Guides will help TB professionals employ a more culturally relativistic approach when working with foreign-born individuals. The introduction provides an overview of the country summaries. Country summaries are available for Brazil, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Philippines, Somalia, Vietnam.

Author:

Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center, SNTC

Audiences:

Health Educators/Communicators, Outreach Workers

Topic:

Cultural Competence

Language:

English

Country of Origin:

United States

View Webpage

Related Materials

Cultural Competency and Tuberculosis Control: Country Specific Guides for Health Professionals Working With Foreign-Born Clients

This pamphlet is the introduction to a series of TB-specific cultural competency guides for the birth countries most commonly reported by foreign-born persons being treated for TB in the United States. Each guide is meant to help health care professionals acquire a greater awareness and understanding of the attitudes, beliefs, and practices related to TB and HIV/AIDS within the client’s birth countries, and includes a number of topics including nicknames for TB, the cultural courtesies or etiquette to observe, verbal and non-verbal communication patterns, the languages spoken, and religions practiced in these countries. As a result of this knowledge, the health care worker will be able to use a more culturally relativistic approach to client interviews, TB contact investigations, diagnostic procedures, patient education, and counseling. Guides are available for the following countries: Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, India, Mexico, the Philippines, Somalia, and Vietnam.

Report

Colombia Cultural Competency and Tuberculosis Control: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals Working with Foreign-Born Clients

The Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center in collaboration with the Lung Health Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed this TB-specific cultural competency guide for Colombia. The guide provides epidemiological information for both TB and HIV in the country, nicknames for TB, common misperceptions surrounding the etiology, disease transmission, and cures for TB and HIV as well as the stigma surrounding these diseases. A portion of the guide also provides information regarding polite greetings to use when meeting a person from this country, verbal and non-verbal communication, naming customs, cultural values, and internet links to translated educational materials for your clients. This information will enable you to employ a more culturally relativistic approach to client interviews, TB contact investigations, diagnostic procedures, and patient education and counseling regarding both TB and HIV.

Manual

Guatemala Cultural Competency and Tuberculosis Control: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals Working with Foreign-Born Clients

The Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center in collaboration with the Lung Health Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed this TB-specific cultural competency guide for Guatemala. The guide provides epidemiological information for both TB and HIV in the country, nicknames for TB, common misperceptions surrounding the etiology, disease transmission, and cures for TB and HIV as well as the stigma surrounding these diseases. A portion of the guide also provides information regarding polite greetings to use when meeting a person from this country, verbal and non-verbal communication, naming customs, cultural values, and internet links to translated educational materials for your clients. This information will enable you to employ a more culturally relativistic approach to client interviews, TB contact investigations, diagnostic procedures, and patient education and counseling regarding both TB and HIV.

Manual

Global resources for the prevention,
management, and elimination of TB.