TB

The "What is TB?" video provides general information about TB disease and TB infection. The video is available in English, Tagalog, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

4 waiting room posters to encourage patients to speak with their doctor about latent TB. The posters are available in English and Chinese.

The video describes ways to effectively manage active TB by providing information on TB testing, diagnosis, and treatment.

The Stop TB poster can be used by TB programs and other healthcare settings to help educate people with TB, as well as people at risk for TB. The poster describes how TB is spread, explains the difference between latent TB infection and TB disease, includes symptoms of active TB disease, and highlights the importance of completing TB treatment to help stop TB.

This MDR TB online course exists as a free self-learning online tool in allowing physicians worldwide to learn and test their knowledge of MDR TB. It is accredited by the South African Medical Association and the Norwegian Medical Association. The course contains seven modules and covers etiology and pathogenesis of TB, diagnosis and treatment, special situations, patient-physician communication, treatment adherence, and TB infection and control. A PDF version of the course is available in French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Azeri.

This guide details safety, efficacy, and access information on rifapentine. The guide also provides activists with the evidence and content needed to advocate for rifapentine to be available, accessible, and affordable to those who may need it.

This fact sheet presents basic facts about TB. It explains the difference between latent TB infection (LTBI) and TB disease, TB transmission, symptoms of TB disease, skin testing procedures, the TB blood test, the chest X-ray, and the sputum test. The information sheet also discusses the medical treatments available for TB, including preventive treatment for persons with LTBI. It emphasizes the importance of finishing all TB medicine and taking the drugs exactly as prescribed to prevent the TB germs from reappearing and becoming resistant to the drugs.

This fact sheet discusses TB and how it is affected by the HIV. It defines TB and explains the difference between TB infection and latent TB infection. The fact sheet advises that HIV weakens the immune system increasing the chance that in people with HIV and latent TB, the TB germs will become active and attack the body causing TB disease. It emphasizes the importance of TB treatment and taking the TB drugs as prescribed.

Using a question and answer format, this fact sheet provides general information on TB prevention. It discusses TB transmission, infection, disease, diagnosis through a skin test or a special TB blood test, and treatment. It explains that TB is spread by germs that are in the air after someone with TB disease sneezes, coughs, speaks, laughs, or sings. TB germs can live in the body without making the individual sick. This is called latent TB infection. If the germs become active, they cause TB disease. An individual who has been exposed to TB germs will be given a TB skin test.

This pamphlet discusses TB, what it is, and how it is transmitted. It explains latent TB infection and active TB disease, TB testing, and the BCG vaccine for TB. It includes information about multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB), extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR TB), and TB treatment.