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What You Need to Know About Tuberculosis

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The purpose of this flipbook is to assist healthcare workers in providing patient education around TB testing, TB infection and TB disease. Panels for patients include simple text and images to reinforce key messages and corresponding panels for providers include easy to deliver script and teaching points.

Regulating CAM Practices and Practitioners

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This information sheet is the fourth in a series of sheets on complementary/alternative (CAM) health care and HIV/AIDS. It considers different types of regulation: licensure, certification, and registration; the type of regulation used with conventional practitioners; and the fact that some conventional practitioners incorporate CAM therapies into their practice. The information sheet suggests some sort of professional code as a beginning for CAM practitioners who are not yet regulated.

MMWR: Updated U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to HBV, HCV, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis

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This report updates previous US Public Health Service recommendations for the management of health-care personnel (HCP) who have occupational exposure to blood and other body fluids that may contain Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, or HIV/AIDS. It contains recommendations for Hepatitis B Virus postexposure management including initiation of hepatitis B vaccine series to any susceptible, unvaccinated person who sustains blood or body fluid exposure. Guidance is provided to clinicians and exposed HCP for selecting the appropriate HBV postexposure prophylaxis (PEP).

Hospital eTool - Tuberculosis

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This eTool focuses on some of the hazards and controls found in the hospital setting, and describes standard requirements as well as recommended safe work practices for employee safety and health.

New Technologies for TB Control: A Framework for Their Adoption, Introduction and Implementation

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This framework identifies key issues that need to be addressed to accelerate the adoption and implementation of new and improved technologies. It provides guidance on what actions are needed when improved existing and/or new medicines, diagnostics and vaccines become available. The document identifies challenges to retooling and proposes key steps for facilitating appropriate and timely adoption and implementation. It also provides an overview of technical and operational considerations for retooling at global and national levels.

Benh Lao TB: Quy vii Can Dieu Tri de Khoi Benh

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This pamphlet uses a question and answer format to provide information on TB disease. It explains what TB is, how it is transmitted, the symptoms of TB, and what a person needs to know about TB medicines.

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