The purpose of this training toolkit is to build the capacity of health care workers to address and manage TB in children. The toolkit consists of ten modules. Topics include epidemiology of childhood TB, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, TB/HIV co-infection, multidrug-resistant TB, and community-based child TB management.
This fact sheet provides information on home and hospital isolation for patients with infectious TB disease.
WHO has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The main aim of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global, regional and country levels. This report is updated annually.
This toolkit provides information on assessing, testing, and treating individuals with latent TB infection. Included in the toolkit are risk assessment forms and fact sheets regarding diagnosis and treatment for latent TB infection.
This patient education video provides information about treatment for TB. The video is in Hmong with English subtitles.
This documents provides an epidemiological profile of TB among people living with HIV. Additionally, it highlights the structural and sociocultural barriers to diagnosis and treatment, and outlines data gaps.
This is an instructional video for TB patients who will be using video directly observed therapy (VDOT) as part of their treatment. The video provides practical tips on how patients can properly record themselves taking their medication.
This toolkit provides background information on video directly observed therapy (VDOT) as well as example templates to be adapted for local implementation of VDOT.
This tool is designed to help clinicians identify students who need screening for TB.
This tool is designed to help clinicians identify asymptomatic children for latent TB infection testing.
