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This report provides standardized recommendations for public health officials, veterinarians, animal venue operators, animal exhibitors, visitors to animal venues and exhibits, and others concerned with disease-control and with minimizing risks associated with animals in public settings. The recommendation to wash hands is the single most important prevention step for reducing the risk for disease transmission.

This video summarizes the key elements of the multi-faceted, private-public partnership that has been assembled by Lilly to meet the challenge of MDR-TB.
Several world-recognized experts from academia, international agencies, and from within the company talk about the challenges that developing nations face in implementing sound containment programs given the lack of awareness, adequately trained personnel and access to affordable drugs.

This manual provides practical guidance relating to the proper use of ambulatory infusion therapy for the treatment of MDR-TB. The guide offers a rationale for providing outpatient infusion therapy for MDR-TB in a clinic setting and describes how to organize the clinic to provide the therapy. In addition, it contains a wall chart which summarizes the daily tasks for providing infusion therapy.

This report was conducted to systematically investigate the conditions under which Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI) can be expected to mitigate the spread of Tuberculosis.

This report describes the distribution of TB cases among the population of California and the demographic and clinical characteristics of TB cases in 2003. It presents the risk factors for TB, drug resistance, treatment outcomes of the reporting jurisdictions in California, and recent trends.

This brochure discusses TB and its relationship to HIV/AIDS.

This brochure discusses the basic facts about tuberculosis including TB transmission, symptoms, and testing; and explains the difference between latent TB infection and active TB disease.

This brochure provides information about TB clinic locations and hours of operation in San Diego area.

This report is the proceedings of the Tuberculosis Behavioral and Social Science Research Forum held on December 10-11, 2003 in Atlanta, GA. The Forum's goal was to identify and prioritize TB behavioral and social science research needs, so that a research agenda for TB prevention, control, and treatment could be developed. These Forum Proceedings include summaries of presentations and discussions, as well as a synthesis of research needs and priorities identified by attendees. For a hardcopy, contact the Communications, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch at (404) 639-8135.

Faced with four overlapping epidemics -- drug use, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis -- Central Asia may face a serious crisis in 20 years' time unless concerted action is taken now. This study, geared to policymakers, provides an epidemiological update and looks at actions taken already by governments, NGOs, and donors in four Central Asian countries. It finds that injecting drug users, sex workers, prisoners and youth at risk are barely attended to, while truck drivers and migrants are overlooked all together.