Policy Makers

As a member of the Stop TB Partnership, the Health and Development Networks moderated a six-month discussion on the Stop TB eForum on key roles and needs of front-line health workers in stopping tuberculosis. This publication describes key findings and recommendations from the discussions on the crucial role front-line health workers play in TB control.

The Patient's Charter for Tuberculosis Care (The Charter) outlines the rights and responsibilities of people with tuberculosis. It empowers people with the disease and their communities through this knowledge. Initiated and developed by patients from around the world, the Charter makes the relationship with health care providers a mutually beneficial one. The Charter is affiliated with the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care, developed by the Tuberculosis Coalition for Technical Assistance.

This fact sheet provides information on the global burden of TB, TB targets, and the new Stop TB Strategy.

These guidelines offer recommendations for TB control programmes and medical workers in middle- and low- income countries faced with drug-resistant forms of TB, especially MDR-TB.

This report provides a critical review of what is known about adherence to long-term therapies.This is achieved by looking beyond individual diseases. A broad range of policy options emerges by including communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), mental and neurological conditions such as depression and epilepsy, substance dependence (exemplified by smoking cessation), hypertension, asthma and palliative care for cancer.

This fact sheet provides an overview of TB diagnosis, treatment, and drug-resistant TB. It also reviews the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, which has dealt with TB since its first day of operations more than 30 years ago.

This book is directed specifically to national TB control programs and their partners. It is intended to help select and implement the steps needed to ensure that the guiding principles of equity and poverty reduction are translated into practical measures - and that these practical measures are integrated into the national TB services and linked to broader poverty alleviation efforts.

This guideline promotes collaboration between TB and HIV/AIDS programs to reduce the burden for people affected by both diseases.

This guideline promotes collaboration between TB and HIV/AIDS programs to reduce the burden for people affected by both diseases.

This guideline promotes collaboration between TB and HIV/AIDS programs to reduce the burden for people affected by both diseases.