Policy Makers

This fact sheet presents the 12 collaborative policies for HIV/TB being undertaken by the WHO.

This fact sheet presents the 12 collaborative policies for HIV/TB being undertaken by the WHO.

This fact sheet provides the latest information on the work USAID is doing to fight TB in Haiti.

This book provides guidelines to national TB program managers, policy makers, nongovernmental organizations, and donor agencies on effective management of TB. The guidelines focus on the technical and managerial aspects of treatment.

The Truth About TB website is part of a new campaign to get people talking and thinking about TB. The campaign is being developed by TB Alert, the UK's national Tuberculosis charity. The website includes stories by people who have been affected by TB, questions and answers about TB, and a variety of resources.

This new report on anti-tuberculosis (TB) drug resistance by the World Health Organization (WHO) updates “Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world: Report No. 4” published by WHO in 2008. It summarizes the latest data and provides latest estimates of the global epidemic of multidrug and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB). For the first time, this report includes an assessment of the progress countries are making to diagnose and treat MDR-TB cases.

This handbook is intended to give guidance to those responsible for developing country-specific strategic plans and annual implementation plans for HRD for comprehensive TB control within overall HRH development. The central theme of this handbook points to the need for close collaboration between, and coordination among, national TB control programmes and the departments of health system management or human resources for health of the Ministry of Health and their respective partners.

This report assesses how and why the IOM's tuberculosis elimination plan has not been fully implemented and provides updated action plans to move forward on its recommendations to accelerate progress toward tuberculosis elimination in the United States.

This booklet calls upon national programs for TB control, donors, financing institutions, civil society, media, and communities to join hands in intensifying the fight against drug-resistant TB.

This fact sheet focuses on the need to reduce poverty and strengthen health systems as part of TB control.