This online course is designed to provide TB control staff, clinicians, and nurses a brief overview of basic principles of molecular technology and test platforms used for molecular testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a basis for understanding how mutations are associated with drug resistance and what reporting language might be used to describe resistance results.
This pocket card provides information on the treatment of drug-susceptible TB disease. The pocket card is adapted from the 2016 Official American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Infectious Disease Society of America Clinical Practice Guidelines: Treatment of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis.
This guide is intended to help health care providers use audiometry to make informed and patient-centered decisions to prevent and manage ototoxicity resulting from second-line anti-TB injectables.
This material is a collection of 45 examples of the prevention, control, and care of TB. There are examples from 21 countries, including 14 countries of high priority for MDR TB and countries with high and low TB incidence.
These guidelines contain policy recommendations on priority areas in the treatment of drug-susceptible TB and patient care.
This document describes the steps necessary to measure the corrected QT (QTc) interval from electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring for patients being treated either with the shorter treatment regimen or the new drugs for drug-resistant TB treatment.
.This job aid can be used by healthcare workers to view dosage information for bedaquiline. The resource also provides visual information for patients.
This report presents the results of a survey of 29 countries on national TB policies and practices. The report was created to identify gaps in implementation and monitor progress towards ending TB.
This 75-minute webinar was created for physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who diagnose and treat patients with TB. The training focused on the diagnosis and follow-up of pediatric cases along with reading of the chest x-rays.
This video discusses the human, scientific, and historic impact of TB. The video also includes interviews with TB patients and health care workers.
