Killer Diseases – Tuberculosis
This video discusses the human, scientific, and historic impact of TB. The video also includes interviews with TB patients and health care workers.
This video discusses the human, scientific, and historic impact of TB. The video also includes interviews with TB patients and health care workers.
This documents provides an epidemiological profile of TB among Indigenous Peoples. Additionally, it highlights the structural and sociocultural barriers to diagnosis and treatment, outlines data gaps, and provides a general overview of indigenous perceptions of health.
This tool is designed to help clinicians identify students who need screening for TB.
This tool is designed to help clinicians identify asymptomatic children for latent TB infection testing.
This guide provides information on the implementation of WHO recommendations and international best practices for TB laboratory strengthening. Topics in the guide include quality assurance, specimen collection, procurement and supply-chain management, biosafety, data management, human resources, and strategic planning.
This resource is designed to help facilitate a training of The Union's "Online Childhood TB Training for Healthcare Workers course" (https://childhoodtb.theunion.org). Included in the training package are a facilitator's guide, sample course agenda, a participant workbook, and a sample evaluation form.
This video provides basic information regarding TB.
This fact sheet provides information on home and hospital isolation for patients with infectious TB disease.
This toolkit provides background information on video directly observed therapy (VDOT) as well as example templates to be adapted for local implementation of VDOT.
This is an instructional video for TB patients who will be using video directly observed therapy (VDOT) as part of their treatment. The video provides practical tips on how patients can properly record themselves taking their medication.