This training curriculum for tuberculosis (TB) health care workers introduces principles of interpersonal communication and counseling of clients on TB and HIV and provides practical experience in TB and HIV counseling skills in a three-day workshop. The training package also includes PowerPoint presentations on parts 1, 2, and 4 for the trainers; and handouts for the participants.
A fotonovela that follows the story of Juan and his community as they cope with tuberculosis. Designed to educate Spanish-speaking foreign-born individuals about TB, the story addresses topics such as awareness, misconceptions, treatment, contact investigation.
A slide set geared toward primary care providers who see foreign born patients at risk for LTBI and TB disease to increase their knowledge, attitudes and practices of LTBI and TB management.
This advocacy brochure shows how one million lives can be saved by the end of 2015 by preventing and treating tuberculosis among people living with HIV.
Delivering HIV Rapid Test Results: Experiences from the Field is a short (approximately 30 minute) video that combines real stories from providers delivering rapid test results and clients learning their test results, as well as scripted vignettes that illustrate key points. It is designed so that it can be used both for individual study as well as in a group learning setting. There is also an accompanying 26-page discussion and resource guide.
This brochure presents guidance to limit liver toxicity in the HIV-positive patient with latent TB infection.
The white paper, or policy document, outlines the strategic vision of NCHHSTP for reducing health disparities and promoting health equity among populations affected by these diseases. NCHHSTP is committed to promoting awareness, stakeholder and community engagement, and action on factors that can affect the nation and the world's health; to addressing these factors in the policy, practice, and research activities of NCHHSTP; and to building partnerships on every level.
This fact sheet provides the latest data on the global tuberculosis epidemic, including impact by region, the challenges posed by drug-resistant tuberculosis, and the U.S. government response to the epidemic.
This new roadmap for 2011-2015 follows on the Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015 while setting new and more ambitious targets for the next five years. The action plan, for the first time, identifies all the research gaps that need to be filled to bring rapid TB tests, faster treatment regimens and a fully effective vaccine to market. It also shows public health programmes how to drive universal access to TB care, including how to modernize diagnostic laboratories and adopt revolutionary TB tests that have recently become available.
This document is intended to raise awareness about TB/HIV research priorities (i.e. areas that require urgent funding and scientific interest), help coordinate advocacy efforts, and encourage research funding. The aim is to increase the implementation of high-quality, integrated TB/HIV interventions in resource-limited settings. The document outlines a revised research priority agenda based on the latest evidence in six key areas of TB and HIV co-infection.
