Updated TB Testing and Treatment Recommendations for Health Care Personnel
This video summarizes updated tuberculosis (TB) screening, testing, and treatment recommendations for health care personnel.
This video summarizes updated tuberculosis (TB) screening, testing, and treatment recommendations for health care personnel.
This infographic presents updated recommendations for TB screening, testing, and treatment of health care personnel.
This report presents the findings of a short-term study to examine the risk of TB among health care workers. It discusses the possible effects of federal guidelines, responses to resurgent TB, and proposed strategies for eliminating TB in the United States and worldwide.
This report presents a regional framework for addressing TB/HIV co-infection in the Western Pacific that is adapted to the epidemiological profile and health service system of the region and identifies areas in which both programs can complement each other to address TB/HIV.
This guide assists in making TB control policy decisions and plans for successfully introducing fixed-dose combination drugs (FDCs). This guide is intended for national TB program managers, DOTS strategy implementers, drug procurement officers/personnel, DOT providers, and drug regulatory authorities.
This report highlights the work of community-based organizations and people living with HIV/AIDS in advocating for coordinated TB and HIV policies and services in their countries. The report presents case studies from Indonesia, Mexico, Sierra Leon, South Africa, Ukraine, and the Caribbean, highlighting community advocates’ strategies, achievements, and lessons learned.
This pamphlet explains how to collect a sputum specimen at home for laboratory analysis.
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 fully effective vaccine to market. It also shows public health programmes how to drive universal access to TB care, including how to modernize diagnostic laboratories and adopt revolutionary TB tests that have recently become available.
This roadmap describes ten priorities, grouped into three core themes, that address the major health and economic impacts of zoonotic TB.
This guide answers questions about using respirators to prevent TB transmission.