Adherence to MDR-TB Treatment: The 5 A's of Patient Support
This online course discusses critical principles and steps to facilitate treatment adherence for MDR-TB patients. The five A’s are: Assess, Advise, Agree, Arrange, and Assist.
This online course discusses critical principles and steps to facilitate treatment adherence for MDR-TB patients. The five A’s are: Assess, Advise, Agree, Arrange, and Assist.
This poster encourages people to buy queso fresco from safe sources. It was developed for and tested with low-literacy Spanish-speaking populations.
This pocket guide is intended to be a resource for physicians and other health care professionals who provide care and treatment to patients with MDR TB. The guide is a revision of The PIH Guide to the Medical Management of MDR-TB that was published in 2003.
The TB Voices Project documented individuals' TB experience using photos, video/voice recordings, and/or their written story. Twenty-eight people from across King and Snohomish County, Washington shared their TB experiences through the TB Voices Project in 2013. The website contains: video and audio clips of more than 25 TB stories; a 13 minute video applicable for all audiences; and an active blog.
This guide specifically addresses issues such as stigma and work discrimination, and also provides practical recommendations on how to establish an effective monitoring system.
This document includes recommendations for improving the management of children with TB and of children living in families with TB. National and regional TB control programmes may wish to adapt these recommendations according to local circumstances.
This report highlights the issues surrounding high prices and poor supply of the drugs needed to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). The report provides an overview of available drug-resistant TB medicines, including drug sources, quality status, and price.
This fact sheet discusses the deadly duo of TB-HIV, and how members of both TB and HIV communities can work together.
These brief, interactive self-study case studies allow you to practice locating areas of radiographic abnormalities using real-life clinical scenarios.
This website is an open-access resource library of radiographic images of tuberculosis. Individuals may use these images to gain an appreciation for the broad spectrum of radiographic manifestations of tuberculosis. The images are free to download and share for non-commercial educational purposes. To contribute radiographs and help grow this site, submit images to the editors at CurryTBcenter@ucsf.edu.