Treatment of Tuberculosis. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Recommendations and Reports June 20 2003; 52(RR-11)1-77
This report presents recommendations for the treatment of tuberculosis.
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Treating the Patient With Tuberculosis: Guidelines for Collaborating With Community Physicians
This manual is a handbook for use by state and local health departments to improve their TB control programs that require collaboration with healthcare providers in the community.
Sexual Health and Your Patients: A Provider's Guide
This guide was created to help primary care providers (physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurse-midwives) learn how to better incorporate sexual health discussions and recommended preventive sexual health services into an adult or adolescent wellness visit. Although intended...
PrEP Handbook for Healthcare Providers
Handbook developed by the DC DOH provides guidance on how to advise patients on the benefits of PrEP.
MMWR: Update: Fatal and Severe Liver Injuries Associated With Rifampin and Pyrazinamide for Latent Tuberculosis Infection, and Revisions in American Thoracic Society/CDC Recommendations--United States, 2001
This report provides preliminary information about 21 cases of liver injury associated with rifampin-pyrazinamide (RIF-PZA) and the revised recommendations on selecting appropriate therapy for patients with latent TB infection and monitoring the use of RIF-PZA to treat infection.
MMWR: Updated Guidelines for the Use of Rifabutin or Rifampin for the Treatment and Prevention of Tuberculosis Among HIV-Infected Patients Taking Protease Inhibitors or Nonnucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
This guideline presents updated data about drug interactions between protease inhibitors and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors for treatment of HIV infection together with rifamycins for treatment of TB.
MMWR: Update: Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests for Tuberculosis
This notice explains that on September 30, 1999, the Food and Drug Administration approved a reformulated amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct (MTD) test for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in acid-fast Bacille (AFB) smear-positive and smear-negative respiratory specimens from...
What You Need to Know About Your Medicine for Latent Tuberculosis (TB) Infection – Rifampin
This Latent TB Infection (LTBI) Treatment Fact Sheet Series is designed to complement patient education delivered by healthcare professionals. Each sheet provides patients with a written reminder of their treatment regimen, medication side effects, actions to take if side effects do occur, tips to...
What You Need to Know About Your Medicine for Latent Tuberculosis (TB) Infection – Isoniazid and Rifapentine
This Latent TB Infection (LTBI) Treatment Fact Sheet Series is designed to complement patient education delivered by healthcare professionals. Each sheet provides patients with a written reminder of their treatment regimen, medication side effects, actions to take if side effects do occur, tips to...
Sexual Health Education Scope and Sequence
This information sheet provides a brief overview on sexual health education scope and sequence. The sexual health education scope and sequence identifies what students should know and when it should be taught for each grade or grade group to lower students’ risk of STDs and teen pregnancy.