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This guideline is intended to help nurses in their role of detecting TB cases, providing care, and managing TB treatment. It provides a nursing approach to planning and delivering patient care, aimed at improving access and quality of care throughout the treatment period. It offers a review of TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) and the directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS) and DOTS-Plus strategy, as well as guidance on how to adapt TB control information for local program implementation.

The "10/90 Gap" is the idea that only 10% of global health research is devoted to conditions accounting for 90% of the global disease burden.
This report dispels the myth of the 10/90 Gap in health research including research regarding tuberculosis. It calls for a more constructive approach to improving access to medicines for the poor.

This slide set depicts how TB is spread and how to differentiate between latent TB infection and active TB disease. It also lists symptoms of TB and discusses testing and treatment.

This flyer, designed for community and public settings like schools and child care facilities, urges patients to cover their noses and mouths when coughing to help stop the spread of germs.

This poster, designed for community and public settings like schools and child care facilities, urges patients to cover their noses and mouths when coughing to help stop the spread of germs.

These guidelines offer recommendations for TB control programmes and medical workers in middle- and low- income countries faced with drug-resistant forms of TB, especially MDR-TB.

This fact sheet provides information on the global burden of TB, TB targets, and the new Stop TB Strategy.

This package includes an instruction guide and a videotape. The guide explains the three key elements of the cohort review process and how to adapt the process to your own TB program.The videotape illustrates the benefits of adopting cohort review and highlights the roles of the cohort review team members. The videotape was produced by the CDC, Creative Digital Group, and the Constella Group. The instruction guide was developed by the CDC and the Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center.

The information kit is also available with a DVD.

This package includes an instruction guide and a DVD. The DVD illustrates the benefits of adopting cohort review and highlights the roles of the cohort review team members. The guide explains the three key elements of the cohort review process and how to adapt the process to your own TB program. The DVD was produced by the CDC, Creative Digital Group, and the Constella Group. The instruction guide was developed by the CDC and the Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center.

The information kit is also available with a videotape.

This document sets out a 10-year strategic framework for advocacy, communications, and social mobilization activities and is a key supporting document to the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Plan to Stop TB 2006–2015.