Xpert MTB/RIF for People Living with HIV
This fact sheet provides a summary of WHO recommendations on using the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for people living with HIV.
TB
Forging Partnerships to Eliminate Tuberculosis: A Guide and Toolkit 2007
This report provides a framework for TB prevention and control programs for use in planning new intervention strategies and strengthening existing ones through partnership formation. The report explains how to forge partnerships, why partnership formation is important, and how the formation benefits the partners and the community. It discusses successful health-related community partnerships; covers steps in partnership building; and includes information on types of partnerships, such as networks, task forces, and advisory committees, and their purposes.
Le Petit Livre de la Tuberculose
This pamphlet for persons diagnosed with TB or multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) contains practical advice, suggestions, guidance, and information to help the patient cope with the illness. The tips are based on personal experience of other TB patients and common sense. Tips cover an explanation of the disease its symptoms, treatment including Direct Observed Therapy (DOTS), taking medication and medication for children, side effects, managing time in isolation, communication with others while in isolation, regaining control of one’s life, eating healthy, and after completing treatment.
TB in those with HIV in Bengali (India)
This video illustrates the interactions between TB and HIV, including their impact on the immune system, TB testing, and TB treatment.
Reported Tuberculosis in the United States, 2006
This report presents summary data for TB cases reported to the CDC Division of TB Elimination (DTBE), verified, and counted in 2006. These reports of TB cases were submitted by 60 reporting areas (50 states, the District of Columbia, New York City, Puerto Rico, and seven other jurisdictions in the Pacific and Caribbean).
Managing Drug Interactions in the Treatment of HIV-Related Tuberculosis
This report summarizes updated recommendations for managing the drug-drug interactions that occur when using antiretroviral therapy during TB treatment.
Workplace-Based Investigation of Contacts of a Patient With Highly Infectious Tuberculosis – Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia, 2006
This report describes an investigation to determine the extent of TB transmission, including identifying and screening exposed contacts of a 46 year-old patient diagnosed with TB, and providing treatment. The report describes the multijurisdictional contact investigation, since the patient traveled to three jurisdictions in the course of his work, and summarizes the results.
Resources for TB Screening and Testing of Health Care Personnel
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association (NTCA) have released “Tuberculosis Screening, Testing, and Treatment of U.S. Health-Care Personnel: Recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and CDC, 2019”, published May 17, 2019 in CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). CDC developed supporting resources and tools, including:
Reported Tuberculosis in the United States, 2007
This report presents summary data for TB cases reported to the Division of TB Elimination (DTBE), verified, and counted in 2007. These reports of TB cases were submitted by 60 reporting areas (50 states, the District of Columbia, New York City, Puerto Rico, and seven other jurisdictions in the Pacific and Caribbean).
El manejo de la Tuberculosis [Tuberculosis Management]
The video educates viewers on ways to effectively manage active TB. The animation includes information on preventing the spread of TB through TB testing, diagnosis, and treatment.