This flyer, designed for community and public settings like schools and child care facilities, urges patients to cover their noses and mouths when coughing to help stop the spread of germs.
This fact sheet gives general information about active TB disease including symptoms, complications, tests, and treatment.
This fact sheet provides guidelines for performing 2-step vs. contact follow-up skin testing, and procedures for administering and interperting skin test results.
This fact sheet gives general information about what a TB contact investigation is and why it is important.
This fact sheet details the three levels of TB infection control in health-care settings, considerations for selection of respirators, and implementing a respiratory protection program.
This fact sheet provides information on how the skin test is given and read, and what the results mean.
This document, building on the Stop TB Partnership's first plan for 2001-2005, provides a comprehensive assessment of the action and resources needed to implement the Stop TB strategy and make an impact on the global TB burden. The three components of the plan are strategic directions, global and regional scenarios for TB control, and partnership action to achieve the goals.
The Stop TB Department (STB) of the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with technical partners, has revised the TB recording and reporting (R&R) system to align the forms and registers with the new Stop TB Strategy. The revision facilitates the monitoring of the six components of the Stop TB Strategy, which itself was developed to help achieve the Millenium Development Goals.
This toolbox contains sample letters, forms, and protocols that can be adapted and used by local programs to contact and follow-up with recent immigrants and refugees entering the US with a B classification.
This pilot curriculum for accompagnateurs comprises 15 units, with a focus on treatment and support for patients with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Accompagnateurs are community health workers trained and employed to provide medical and psychosocial support for their neighbors. This curriculum contains a training guide, handbook, flipchart, and slides. Available only in electronic format, which can be downloaded for free at the URL listed below.
