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This report presents guidelines to assist national AIDS programs and ministries of health in implementing second generation surveillance systems to monitor HIV. The monograph discusses the role of second generation surveillance in a National Strategic plan and the assessment of HIV, sexually...

This brochure explains the connection between tuberculosis and queso fresco.

This report summarizes data from the national TB surveillance system for 2000 and compares them with data from 1992 to 1999.

This report discusses the burdens of AIDS, malaria, and TB; assesses the tools used to fight them; identifies barriers to success; and provides statistics on deaths caused by these diseases in 2000.

This document reinforces the five essential elements of the DOTS strategy.

This report examines how children become infected with HIV, how infection can be prevented in children, and ways of reducing the impact of HIV. The report discusses statistics and data concerning pediatric HIV/AIDS, transmission; prevention, including health education and prevention of HIV in women...

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.

This report describes the results of the investigation of a cluster of TB cases that occurred in Kansas from 1994 to 2000 among women with a history of working as exotic dancers and persons who were close contacts of the dancers.

This announcement gives a brief overview of World TB Day, which recognizes the collaborative efforts of all countries involved in eliminating TB.

This report discusses two cases of latent TB infection in which patients developed severe or fatal hepatitis associated with rifampin-pyrazinamide (RIF-PZA) treatment.