Treatment- Directly Observed Therapy (DOT)

This guide provides information about TB treatment for TB supporters who ensure that patients take their TB drugs regularly and on schedule for the full duration of the treatment.

This manual provides basic information on TB testing, and lists key points in evaluating, treating, and monitoring children and adolescents who have latent TB infection.

This training curriculum is designed to improve the skills of DOT workers in public health TB control programs. It addresses skills required to conduct DOT such as promoting patient adherence to TB treatment, protecting patient confidentiality, and working with culturally diverse populations. The curriculum includes a trainer’s guide and participant materials, as well as handouts, training outlines, slide presentations, and an educational videotape.

This pocket-size drug treatment card for clinicians provides information on the standard anti-tuberculosis therapy for active disease in children, including dosages, daily and intermittent regimens, side effects, treatment information and visual depictions of first-line medications.

This guide provides information about TB treatment for TB supporters who ensure that patients take their TB drugs regularly and on schedule for the full duration of the treatment.

This guide provides information about TB treatment for TB supporters who ensure that patients take their TB drugs regularly, on schedule, for the full duration of the treatment.

This guide provides information about TB treatment for TB supporters who ensure that patients take their TB drugs regularly and on schedule for the full duration of the treatment.

This fact sheet explains the purpose of the Global Drug Facility (GDF) to expand access to, and availability of, high-quality TB drugs to facilitate DOTS expansion, and to enable governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to implement effective TB control programs based upon the DOTS stragegy.

ISAC (Intensified Support and Action Countries) is a special emergency initiative to accelerate DOTS expansion and reach the 2005 targets; within the Global Plan to Stop TB, and to achieve the 2015 target of reversing TB incidence. ISAC will focus international assistance on and support efforts by the Stop TB Partnership in selected countries through the DOTS Expansion Working Group (DEWG).

This report explains the European DOTS Expansion plan to control TB. The plan highlights country needs and resource gaps, emphasizing collaboration with the governments of endemic countries, national and international agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The aim is to stimulate social and political commitment to achieving the global TB targets as part of the overall health system. The plan is based on two principles: the development of national DOTS expansion plans and partnership-building to control TB.