TB

This document highlights strategic directions to integrate digital health into TB prevention and care activities in support of WHO’s End TB Strategy.

This document is the first language guide for partners and stakeholders working in tuberculosis.These recommendations have been developed for use by everyone involved in the fight against TB and are aimed at reducing stigmatizing TB language.

Effective tuberculosis (TB) control and prevention activities require public health nurses who possess the necessary background knowledge and skills. This Training Roadmap allows you to design a personalized training guide, utilizing a wide range of existing resources. The materials included in the Roadmap are our recommendations for a nurse who is new to TB. Many of these materials are also appropriate for other TB staff, such as disease investigators.

The "What Corrections Staff Need to Know" slide set is designed to be used by health department staff to educate correctional facility staff on TB treatment and control efforts. The materials may be adapted to meet the needs and regulations of your jurisdiction.

The resources on this website were compiled by the NTCA/NTNC Corrections Committee. Topics include TB prevention and control, epidemiology, screening, contact investigation, infection control, release planning, and cultural factors.

When using a resource, please review and edit to comply with state and local regulations or your program needs.

This document provides practical guidance on translating the World Health Organization's principles and recommendations into a national or local screening strategy.

This document offers recommendations from CDC’s Health Literacy Council and other agency communicators on how to reduce jargon and replace problematic terms to improve comprehension.

Everyday Words is based on years of experience and formative research by CDC’s communication staff testing materials with diverse audiences. It provides:
substitute terms, real-life examples of difficult public health passages, revised wording, and tips to reinforce meaning and avoid other common pitfalls.

This tool is designed to help clinicians select adults for LTBI testing who are at high-risk for TB exposure or progression to TB disease. The tool calls out 3 groups for testing: foreign-born; immunosuppressed (e.g., HIV, TNF alpha inhibitor use, steroids, organ transplant); and contacts.

The Stop TB Partnership developed a set of free campaign materials for World TB Day 2016. Resources include posters, postcards, a toolkit, a t-shirt design, and cap and sarong designs. The resources come in six languages - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, and Russian.

This document shares best practices in engagement of health care providers in programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis that have been documented in different countries and regions and implemented by different stakeholders. Case studies presented in the document are lessons learned for scale-up of public-private mix for the management of drug-resistant TB at country level.