TB

This booklet calls upon national programs for TB control, donors, financing institutions, civil society, media, and communities to join hands in intensifying the fight against drug-resistant TB.

The Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center in collaboration with the Lung Health Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed TB-specific cultural competency guides. These guides have been adapted into a series of “quick reference guides.” There are quick reference guides for the countries that have accounted for more than 60% of the TB cases among foreign-born persons over the past five years: Mexico, the Philippines, India, Vietnam, China, Guatemala, and Haiti.

This manual gives guidance for the x-ray reading in TB Suspects and provides a useful tool for better diagnosing of smear-negative TB in adult TB suspects.

Adequate ventilation can reduce the transmission of infection in health-care settings. Natural ventilation can be one of the effective environmental measures to reduce the risk of spread of infections in health care.

This guideline first defines ventilation and then natural ventilation. It explores the design requirements for natural ventilation in the context of infection control, describing the basic principles of design, construction, operation and maintenance for an effective natural ventilation system to control infection in health-care settings.

This fact sheet provides information to help prevent the spread of tuberculosis (TB) for patients who are potentially infectious.

This hospital discharge planning checklist may be used by health care workers to ensure that all of the appropriate steps have been taken in order to discharge a TB patient from the hospital.

This field guide is a companion document to WHO's "Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis."

This fact sheet focuses on the need to reduce poverty and strengthen health systems as part of TB control.

The ILO and WHO, with the help of other partners in the world of work, have collaborated to develop international guidelines of TB management at the workplace. These outline how any business, large or small, or public sector workplace can make a contribution to TB management and control.

The Self-Study Modules, 1-5 is part of a series of educational modules designed to provide information about TB in a self-study format. This slide set was developed as an accompaniment to the print-based Self-Study Modules, 1-5 to aid in the presentation of module content for a facilitator-led training. The facilitator guide provides guidance and tips for leading a training using the Self-Study Modules on Tuberculosis, 1-5 Slide Sets.