TB

Although guidelines for population-based TB disease prevalence surveys exist, these cannot readily be used for measuring the prevalence of TB disease among health care workers, specific adaptations are needed. This guide is intended to provide that guidance for the specific setting of health care workers. This guide is designed to be used in combination with the WHO TB Prevalence Surveys: A Handbook.

This report summarizes the accomplishments and activities of the Stop TB Partnership in 2011.

This issue focuses on the story of Raquel Orduño, whose on-going TB advocacy began with a group of people who came together to document and portray their experiences with TB along the United States (U.S.)-Mexico border. It also includes information on advocacy, social support and supportive language.

This brochure for patients describes the new 12-dose treatment for latent TB infection (LTBI).

This guide was developed to provide high school teachers across Canada, but in particular in the Prairie Provinces, with an abundance of information related to tuberculosis identification, the connection of tuberculosis to other diseases and behaviors, and tuberculosis history that they might use in the classroom.

This guide summarizes The Union's experience in developing approaches to integrated TB-HIV care for adults in resource-limited settings. It is recommended for health professionals at the implementation level and national programme staff in charge of policy and practices for collaborative TB-HIV activities.

This Course is intended as an introduction to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) management, and is aimed at medical practitioners involved in the detection, management and treatment of MDR-TB patients, under the guiding principles of the World Health Organization's Stop TB Strategy. The Course aims to facilitate self-study by medical practitioners of contemporary, evidence-based standards for diagnosis and clinical management of MDR-TB in a variety of geographical, economic and social settings.

The Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center in collaboration with the Lung Health Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed this TB-specific cultural competency guide for China. The guide provides epidemiological information for both TB and HIV in the country, nicknames for TB, common misperceptions surrounding the etiology, disease transmission, and cures for TB and HIV as well as the stigma surrounding these diseases.

This handbook is intended to give guidance to those responsible for developing country-specific strategic plans and annual implementation plans for HRD for comprehensive TB control within overall HRH development. The central theme of this handbook points to the need for close collaboration between, and coordination among, national TB control programmes and the departments of health system management or human resources for health of the Ministry of Health and their respective partners.

This report assesses how and why the IOM's tuberculosis elimination plan has not been fully implemented and provides updated action plans to move forward on its recommendations to accelerate progress toward tuberculosis elimination in the United States.