This webinar is a public forum and panel discussion convened to examine the global health challenges that TB presents, examine the limitations and challenges of current treatment options, and discuss the search for new and better TB drugs and other tools. A podcast, speakers' biographies, and a transcript is also available.
This handbook is for home-based HIV testing and counseling (HBHTC) service providers to provide unified practical guidance on ways to address challenges and to outline important considerations when planning an HBHTC program. It is also meant for supervisors, program managers, and national policy makers and program planners.
This video explain the process of conducting child contact management. Child contact management improves the use of TB preventive therapy and identifies those with TB.
This poster is to be used as a pocket resource contains photographs and agents for treatment of oral manifestations of HIV disease including: antifungal, antiviral, topical, antibacterial, and other treatments.
This monograph is a flip-book is intended as a tool to assist the TB patient education process with English-speaking TB patients and their family members. Sitting across from one and other, or side by side, black and white pages are to be viewed by the healthcare professional, while color pages are to be viewed by the patient.
This information sheet provides an overview of HIV/AIDS in the United States, including the number of persons with the disease. It states that the number of new infections has remained stable, but that an estimated 50,000 persons who become newly infected every year is too high. It notes that nearly 13,000 people with AIDS still die each year in the United States. The information sheet provides statistics on the heavily affected populations by risk group and race/ethnicity.
CDC’s Let’s Stop HIV Together (Together) campaign is the national campaign of the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. Together is an evidence-based campaign created in English and Spanish. It aims to empower communities, partners, and health care...
This report provides updated uniform criteria for use by public health professionals when reporting the nationally notifiable infectious diseases listed in Part One of this report. A revision date is included for case definitions that have been revised. The case definitions for some infectious conditions not designated as nationally notifiable are included in Part Two of this report.
This report summarizes potential uses of nucleic acid amplification (NAA) tests such as the Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test (MTD) for TB diagnosis and provides interim guidelines for the use of such tests. The report lists the current NAA tests, their FDA approved uses, their non-approved indications also known as off-label uses, limitations, and cautions.
