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This website contains general information about TB, TB guidelines, and country specific documents that are found on TB CAP's Toolbox CD ROM.

This educational CD is intended to improve the management and care of pediatric tuberculosis in the private sector. Includes four recorded presentations, Q&A Sessions, and many other learning and resource materials. Free CE and CME offered.

Pediatric TB Session 1 – Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Childhood TB: How are kids different?
Presenter: Jeffrey Starke, MD

Pediatric TB Session 2 – Latent TB Infection: Who, How, When and Why?
Presenter: Robert Lawrence, MD

A document on technical instructions for TB screening and treatment for panel physicians on persons overseas applying for U.S immigration status and non-immigrants who are required to have an overseas medical examination.

This is a consent and treatment plan agreement between persons who may have or have LTBI and their health care provider.

This is a form for patients and case managers/health departments to sign indicating that they understand and agree to Directly Observed Therapy for treatment of TB.

This contract form is for persons who refuse TB care, given they have been informed about LTBI and TB disease.

Produced by Global Health TV, this film is about the Stop TB Parternship. The film features an interview with Executive Secretary Dr Marcos Espinal and a close-up of the vital role partnership is playing in advancing TB control in Brazil.

The Policy Guidelines outline the detailed evidence and explanation of the recommendations and describe the methods, the people involved and the summary of conflicts of interest. The aim of this guidance is to provide a strategic
approach to reducing TB- and HIV-related morbidity and mortality among drug users and their communities in a way that promotes holistic and person-centred services.

This manual describes policies, protocols and recommendations for the prevention, treatment and control of tuberculosis from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH). The protocols address testing, preventive treatment, initial evaluation for TB, treatment of TB disease and drug-resistant TB, monitoring and follow-up evaluation, infection control, and case management.

The Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center in collaboration with the Lung Health Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed this TB-specific cultural competency guide for Vietnam. The guide provides epidemiological information for both TB and HIV in the country, nicknames for TB, common misperceptions surrounding the etiology, disease transmission, and cures for TB and HIV as well as the stigma surrounding these diseases.