TB

This book describes the procedures used in the Fast Track program, a program of the Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center of Harlem Hospital that provides treatment for health care workers with latent TB infection, and delineates methods that may be useful for other institutions to develop similar programs.

This Spanish novela strip (poster) highlights that TB is curable and symptoms should be assessed by a clinic.

This information sheet contends that new rapid diagnostic laboratory techniques appear to have increased the possiblity of laboratory cross contamination and explains how to avoid diagnostic errors based on false-positive cultures.

This report contains data from 72 geographical settings involved in the Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance between 1994 and 1999.

These guidelines list criteria and technical standards to have in place before launching a DOTS-plus pilot project. The guidelines also provide international standards for the structure and function of pilot projects.

This report concentrates on tackling the incidence of TB in high-HIV-prevalence populations, while addressing those aspects of the HIV epidemic relevant to TB.

This report examines private health sector involvement in tuberculosis control, including results of a global situational assessment, an inventory of interventions, and the roles of WHO and individual countries in an emerging policy framework.

General information on traveling internationally for those at risk or have TB in Spanish.

This contract form is for persons who refuse TB care, given they have been informed about LTBI and TB disease.

This pamphlet explains how to collect a sputum specimen at home for laboratory analysis.