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This new roadmap for 2011-2015 follows on the Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015 while setting new and more ambitious targets for the next five years. The action plan, for the first time, identifies all the research gaps that need to be filled to bring rapid TB tests, faster treatment regimens and a...

Community health centers (CHCs) are important facilities which implement routine HIV testing consistent with the 2006 recommendations issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This document provides an overview of general protocol elements for facility-based HIV testing and...

This webpage provides summary information on Connecticut's quarantine laws.

This pamphlet provides detailed guidelines for patients about how and when to collect a sputum sample.

This pamphlet provides detailed guidelines for patients about how and when to collect a sputum sample.

This document includes recommendations for improving the management of children with TB and of children living in families with TB. National and regional TB control programmes may wish to adapt these recommendations according to local circumstances.

This toolkit was developed to help National TB Program managers and others involved in the management of TB programs develop new National Strategic Plans or improve existing ones.

This document provides a generic framework for implementing TB diagnostics. Topics covered include managerial, technical, and operational processes required for developing and implementing a national strategy for TB laboratories.

The International Standards for Tuberculosis Care describe a level of care that all practitioners should seek to provide in managing patients with known or suspected TB. The Standards are intended to facilitate the effective engagement of all care providers in delivering high-quality care for...

Developed by the Tuberculosis Coalition for Technical Assistance (TBCTA) with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care describe a widely accepted level of care that all practitioners, public and private, should...