Latent Tuberculosis Infection Treatment Regimens
This info sheet summarizes the updated 2020 LTBI treatment guidelines that apply to persons with LTBI who live in the United States
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Updated Recommendations for Tuberculosis (TB) Screening, Testing, and Treatment for health care personnel in the United States
This infographic presents updated recommendations for TB screening, testing, and treatment of health care personnel.
World TB Day Campaign Website 2020
The World Health Organization’s campaign website for World TB Day includes an advocacy and communication toolkit, an animated logo, posters, social media tiles, videos, and other TB-related links to help spread the theme “It’s TIME.”
Using Adult Learning Principles to Create Effective Training
The webinar provides information on the foundational principles of adult learning theory and shows how the principles can be used in developing trainings.
False-Positive Investigation Toolkit: A Resource for Mycobacteriology Laboratories
The False-Positive Investigation Toolkit provides mycobacteriology staff with updated resources to recognize potential false-positive results and to assist in false-positive investigations. The toolkit includes job-aids, posters, and templates that can be modified for local use.
Guide to Monitoring and Evaluation of Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization to Support Tuberculosis Prevention and Care
This guide was developed to help advocacy, communication, and social mobilization (ACSM) programs at national and subnational levels strengthen routine monitoring and evaluation of tuberculosis ACSM activities.
The Use of Bedaquiline in the Treatment of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis: Interim Policy Guidance
This interim guidance provides advice on the inclusion of bedaquiline in the combination therapy of MDR-TB in accordance with the existing WHO Guidelines for the Programmatic Management of Drug-resistant TB (2011 Update).
Lo Que Usted Necesita Saber Sobre Sus Medicamentos Contra la Infección de Tuberculosis (TB) Latente[What You Need to Know About Your Medicine for Latent Tuberculosis (TB) Infection-Fact Sheet Series]
The Latent TB Infection (LTBI) Treatment Fact Sheet Series is designed to complement patient education delivered by healthcare professionals. For each of the three CDC-recommended LTBI regimens, there is a fact sheet in the series that can be personalized for individual patients. Each sheet provides patients with a written reminder of their treatment regimen, medication side effects, actions to take if side effects do occur, tips to help remain adherent to the medication, and instructions in the event a dose of medication is missed.
HIV-TB Co-Infection: Fuel and Fire
This fact sheet describes the impact of HIV-TB co-infection. It also presents work currently being done to find and treat HIV-TB.
Guidelines for the Clinical and Operational Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Based on The Union's 93-years of working in the field, the new guide tackles the challenges of fulfilling each patient's potential for cure from both the clinician's and the programme manager's perspective.