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Cultural Competency and Tuberculosis Care: A Guide for Self-Study and Self-Assessment

This resource was developed for the public health workforce and other healthcare providers. It is intended as a tool to begin to explore the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for cultural competency in general, with a focus on TB control activities. The guide utilizes a culture general perspective and includes a self-assessment tool, teaching cases, and links to other cultural competency resources.

Active Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment Plan

This is a checklist agreement between clients and health care providers for their active tuberculosis (TB) treatment plan.

A Critical Analysis of Funding Trends, 2005-2007: An Update

Treatment Action Group (TAG) analyzes and reports on the annual
funding of tuberculosis (TB ) research and development (R&D). The top 40 TB
research funding institutions were surveyed for actual disbursements made for TB
R&D in fiscal years 2005, 2006, and now 2007. The three-year data reveal trends in
funding and demonstrates an alarming shortfall in the growth of TB R&D during the
initial years covered by The Global Plan to Stop TB: 2006–2015.

BCG Vaccine

General information on the BCG Vaccine on Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's website.

Haiti Cultural Competency and Tuberculosis Control: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals Working with Foreign-Born Clients

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 Haiti. 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.

The Truth About TB

The Truth About TB website is part of a new campaign to get people talking and thinking about TB. The campaign is being developed by TB Alert, the UK's national Tuberculosis charity. The website includes stories by people who have been affected by TB, questions and answers about TB, and a variety of resources.

Tuberculosis Hospital Discharge Planning Checklist

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.

Communication and Ethics in Tuberculosis: New Dialogues among the Affected People, Civil Society and Health Specialists

This December 2009 presentation aims to foster reflection on and a debate about the role of communication in addressing tuberculosis (TB). The authors propose a conceptual framework of communication and its relation to ethics, building from previous experience in order work against stigma and discrimination in health care contexts by developing the advocacy, communication, and social mobilisation (ACSM) model.