TB

The latest issue of the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute’s Cultural Competency newsletter focused on patient advocacy. The issue was released in conjunction with World TB Day. It highlights the moving story of one patient’s experience with a TB diagnosis, and how she helped other TB patients, their loved ones and healthcare providers in the struggle against TB. The issue also includes information on confronting stigma, extrapulmonary TB and advocacy resources.

In January 2012, members of the Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis reached out to organizations treating children with DR-TB in diverse settings and asked them to submit short stories and photos. These stories pay tribute to the thousands of children who, with the help of dedicated health care providers and family members, have fought and overcome DR-TB.

This document is designed to provide guidance to TB and HIV programme managers, employers, workers organizations, occupational health staff and other partners on the need and ways to work in partnership to design and implement workplace TB/HIV prevention, treatment and care programmes integrated with occupational health and HIV workplace programmes where relevant.

This fact sheet introduces the TB blood test, also called an Interferon Gamma Release Assay or IGRA.

Adopting electronic recording and reporting is not simply about choosing a piece of software: it is also about changing how people work. This is not a simple undertaking. This document introduces the key questions to be considered and illustrates what the questions, options and recommendations mean in practice by drawing on examples of recent experience from a variety of countries. It is an essential resource for all those planning to introduce electronic recording and reporting systems for TB care and control, or to enhance existing systems.

This fact sheet introduces the TB blood test, also called an Interferon Gamma Release Assay or IGRA.

This fact sheet introduces the TB blood test, also called an Interferon Gamma Release Assay or IGRA.

This fact sheet introduces the TB blood test, also called an Interferon Gamma Release Assay or IGRA.

This fact sheet introduces the TB blood test, also called an Interferon Gamma Release Assay or IGRA.

This fact sheet introduces the TB blood test, also called an Interferon Gamma Release Assay or IGRA.