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World TB Day, 24 March 2009: I am Stopping TB!
I am stopping TB is more than a slogan. It is the continuation of a two-year campaign, launched in 2008, that belongs to people everywhere who are doing their part to Stop TB. This yearly event is about celebrating the lives and stories of people affected by tuberculosis: women, men and children who have taken TB treatment; nurses; doctors; researchers; community workers—anyone who has contributed towards the global fight against TB. This page contains the posters and links to the main event websites as well as to the latest WHO TB report being launched, among others.
tb-2009.htm

Sterilization Manual for Health Centers
The purpose of this manual is to inform health workers on the protocols and simple procedures that have been developed to prevent healthcare-associated infections. The guidelines included in this handbook show which steps to follow in cleaning, preparing, sterilizing, storing, and transporting hospital equipment so as to guarantee sterile materials--awareness of which is crucial in providing patients with safe health care. This page provides a summary and access to the full text in Spanish.
amr-manual-esterilizacion.htm

Guide for Tuberculosis Control in Populations Deprived of Liberty in Latin America and the Caribbean
The general objective of this document is to provide basic guidelines for comprehensive TB control centered on individual and joint actions for aid, promotion, and prevention in accordance with the Stop TB strategy in all the people in the penal system, in a coordinated effort between it and the national tuberculosis programs of. This page provides a summary and access to the full text and an introductory presentation in Spanish--as well as links to all other activities on the topic of TB control in prisons.
tb-prisiones-guia-ctl.htm

PAHO-USAID Training Program in Tuberculosis: Terms of Reference 2009
The purpose of this training program is to act as a mechanism to strengthen human-resource capacity in the Region of the Americas for the delivery of the technical assistance in tuberculosis to the Latin American countries. The training program is financed by the Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). PAHO in Washington, DC, will act as responsible institution for the training program and will support and supervise the selected resident. Below find the terms of reference (in PDF) and the application form (in Word). Deadline: 15 January 2009.
tb-application-form-2009.doc TBtermsofref_2009.pdf

Fifth Regional Meeting on TB/HIV Collaborative Activities (San José, Costa Rica, 6-7 November 2008)
The objectives of this meeting were to: (1) Confirm the progress made in implementing TB/HIV collaborative activities in the countries and share experiences; (2) Review the most recent advances in TB/HIV, with emphasis on the "three I's" (Intensified case-finding / ICF, Isoniazid Preventive Therapy / IPT, and Tuberculosis Infection Control / IC); and (3) Program TB/HIV implementation activities. This page contains a summary in English, all conference presentations in English and/or Spanish, and conference documentation and the final report in Spanish.
tb-vih-cor-nov-2008.htm

Fourth Regional Meeting on TB and TB/HIV in Prisons (San José, Costa Rica, 4-5 November 2008)
The objectives of this meeting were: (1) Review progress in implementing the Stop TB strategy; (2) Present new directions for tuberculosis control; and (3) Discuss TB/HIV collaborative activities in penal institutions. This page contains a translated summary, all presentations (in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, as presented) and access to the report in Spanish--as well as links to other meetings and materials on the topic of TB in prisons and TB/HIV.
tb-vih-prisiones-cor-nov-2008.htm

PAHO Communicable Disease Research Program (CDR)
This page offers the user basic information and a variety of resources in the area of research in infectious diseases: mandates, program description, PAHO guides for researchers submitting proposals and reports, links to its WHO counterpart and to the PAHO Research Grants Program as well as to donor institutions and related sites, international awards, announcements of conferences and publications, upcoming events, etc.
res-tdr-home.htm

CE142/DIV/3 - Updated Strategic Plan

ce142-div3-e.pdf

HIV/TB Global Leaders' Forum (United Nations Headquarters, New York, 9 June 2008)
The purpose of forum--the first of its kind--was to speed up actions to face the epidemic of both these diseases, which causes the deaths of a quarter million people each year. The forum ended with a Call to Action to drastically reduce the number of deaths associated with TB/HIV co-infection. This page contains links to various videos from the event, some with Spanish subtitles.
tb-hiv-forum-un-2008.htm

Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO
This page describes the PAHO Technical Area for Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control(HSD), its mission and objectives, what it does in terms of projects and activities. It contains links to the four technical groups and the Pan American Center under its umbrella. Note: Prior to June 2006, the Area was named Disease Prevention and Control.
dpc-page.htm

VPH News (Year 2, No. 4, May 2008)
In this issue: RIMSA 15; PANAFTOSA-PAHO/WHO welcomes countries at the 35th COSALFA meeting; PANAFTOSA-PAHO/WHO promotes animal health training; PANALIMENTOS: Security and food safety; Research and Development: II National Seminar on Hantavirus advanced research; STD/AIDS: Congress discusses fights against STD and AIDS; First Conference on Health Innovation is held in Brazil; Food-and-mouth disease: Emergency Simulation in Paraguay; SENACSA; PWR-Chile: Rabies situation; Book launch and articles; Visits to PANAFTOSA-PAHO/WHO; Cooperation: Fight against animal rabies, agreement for the creation of a laboratory network; Visit of Dr. Mirta Roses, partnership between PAHO and the city where PANAFTOSA-PAHO/WHO has its headquarters.
vet-news-2008-2-4.pdf

Honorary Commission to Fight TB and Prevalent Diseases
This new medical site based in Uruguay offers a wealth of information (in Spanish) on the fight against tuberculosis, vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization information, both for the public and for health professionals, with guidelines, manuals (bacteriological and other), statistics, laboratories, bacteriology, etc.
Honorary Commission to Fight TB and Prevalent Diseases

RIMSA 15: Inter-American Meeting at Ministerial Level on Health and Agriculture (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 11–12 June 2008)
Comprehensive new site: PAHO will once again hold its biennial meeting where ministers of health and agriculture discuss common concerns related to animal diseases, diseases transmitted to human by animals, and agricultural/livestock production and food safety. This year's theme is Agriculture and Health: Alliance for Equity and Rural Development in the Americas.
PANAFTOSA

RIMSA: Inter-American Meeting, at Ministerial Level, on Health and Agriculture
RIMSA stands for Inter-American Meeting in Health and Agriculture at Ministerial Level. It is the only regional forum for collaboration and coordination among the health and agricultural sectors, at the highest political level. PAHO counts on this meeting to development technical cooperation in the area of Veterinary Public Health. This page provides an overview of RIMSA and its documentation.
rimsa-home.htm

RIMSA 14: Index of Documents
Index of documents presented at RIMSA 14.
rimsa14index-e.htm

World TB Day, 24 March 2008: I am Stopping TB!
World TB Day is an occasion to urge action to stop tuberculosis, a disease which still kills an appalling 4,000 people every day. The man-made multidrug-resistant strain and its even more lethal form, extensively drug-resistant TB, are both spreading. "I am stopping TB" is not just the theme for this Day, but a pledge we must uphold as we battle the epidemic throughout the year and into the future. This page contains all official posters plus the messages from the PAHO Director and the UN Secretary General.
tb-2008.htm

Partnerships to Contain Antimicrobial Resistance in South America: An Integrated Approach
Maintaining a flexible and participatory approach has been critical to developing local strategies to prevent and contain antimicrobial resistance (AMR). As a result, SAIDI partners have created individualized interventions in each of the participating countries corresponding to the specifics of local contexts. This fact sheet provides more information on SAIDI.
amr-saidi.htm amr-saidi.pdf

Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World: Fourth Global Report
This is the fourth report of the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance. This report includes drug susceptibility test (DST) results from 91,577 patients from 93 settings in 81 countries and 2 Special Administrative Regions (SARs) of China collected between 2002 and 2006, and representing over 35% of the global total of notified new smear-positive TB cases. It includes data from 33 countries that have never previously reported.
WHO

Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) for Tuberculosis Control: A Handbook for Country Programmes
This handbook is a guide to support the design and implementation of effective advocacy, communication and social mobilization activities in tuberculosis (TB) control at country level. A significant scale-up of such activities is needed to achieve global targets and are particularly essential with the growing emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis. ACSM activities can support timely diagnosis and treatment completion, which will minimize the chances that resistant bacteria will evolve. This handbook is primarily intended for staff planning, organizing and supervising TB control activities at the national level but can also be used at the provincial, state and regional levels and by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and others: communications officers, epidemiologists, program supervisors, TB medical specialists, nurses, bacteriologists, statisticians, health educators, logistics officers and trainers.
WHO

Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization for TB Control: A Guide to Developing Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Surveys
This guide is designed for tuberculosis (TB) program and staff who intend to conduct advocacy, communication and social mobilization (ACSM) activities as part of their broader TB control strategy. The guide may also be a helpful tool for consultants hired to assist country programs in conducting ACSM work. It was developed as a tool to help systematize countries’ approaches to collecting and using data on knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) as an evidence base for planning, refining and evaluating ACSM work. This resource is as a practical toolkit that offers a theoretical framework, practical suggestions, and a menu of useful resources and tools.
WHO

Strengthening Tuberculosis Laboratories
This WHO resource page offers information on TB case detection through quality-assured bacteriology, improving diagnosis, updated WHO policies, mandate, global strategy, news, and more.
Strengthening tuberculosis laboratories - WHO

The WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Drug Resistance Surveillance
Given the lack of standardized data on anti-TB drug resistance and in an effort to estimate the global prevalence of resistance, WHO, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD), and other partners developed this project, assembling a network of Supranational Reference Laboratories (SRLN / Supranational Laboratory Network) to aid National Reference Laboratories in conducting quality-assured drug susceptibility testing in conjunction with national or area anti-TB drug resistance surveillance.
The WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Drug Resistance Surveillance - WHO

Manual for the Bacteriological Diagnosis of Tuberculosis: Standards and Technical Guidelines—Part 1, Smear Tests
Although technological progress has promoted innovations in bacteriology, sputum-smear microscopy has not been subject to substantial technical modifications. However, new epidemiological situations—especially the incidence of tuberculosis among people living with HIV and the need to more rigorously guarantee the quality of results and human and environmental safetyhave promoted a new update of the standards seen in this special guide designed to strengthen laboratory capacity in Latin America.
tb-labs-baciloscopia.htm

Manual for the Bacteriological Diagnosis of Tuberculosis: Standards and Technical Guidelines—Part 2, Cultures
When diagnosing TB, cultures complement smear tests, since they can show viable bacilli present in limited quantity in a lesion sample, characterizing them so as to ascertain that it is indeed the TB bacillus and see if it is sensitive or resistant to TB drugs. Hence, the role of cultures is more important in scenarios with a median or low incidence of tuberculosis, with high levels of TB/HIV co-infection, and with a multiresistant medium or a high tuberculosis burden. This document contains a summary with access to the full text in Spanish of this special guide produced for Latin America
tb-labs-cultivo.htm

VII Interagency Meeting on Stop TB in the Americas (Lima, Peru, 4–5 December 2007)
The objectives of this meeting were to: stimulate the formation of Stop TB partnerships in all priority countries; disseminate the achievements and challenges faced when implementing the Global Plan to Stop TB; determine the level of implementation of the new Stop TB strategy both globally and in the priority countries, as well as partner participation; look at successful experiences in Advocacy–Communication–Social Mobilization (ACSM) and the participation of those affected, and stimulate the implementation of the fifth component of the Stop TB strategy.
tb-stop-tb-12-07-lima.htm

Guide for TB/HIV Counselling and Testing in Tuberculosis Programs
In two parts: Full-text guide and flipchart for use during counselling sessions. This guide and the accompanying materials were developed to provide support to health workers involved in caring for persons with tuberculosis in all areas of the health sector. Its intention is to promote the development of the necessary skills in TB control teams, with the objective of reducing the risk of TB patients of contracting HIV infection and to offer antiretroviral treatment and comprehensive care to those who are have acquired the infection.
tb-vih-guia.htm

An Integrated Approach to Controlling Tuberculosis in Indigenous Populations (Cochabamba, Bolivia, 23-24 October 2007)
Latin America is characterized as being a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural region of great diversity, with more than 650 indigenous populations. Indigenous peoples' right to health is limited by a series of obstacles to care, for which reason their rates of morbidity and mortality from prevalent diseases are higher than among the general population. To overcome these barriers, there is a need to study them and identify specific control strategies and care models that will work in places where health systems have yet to reach, with the ultimate objective of reducing the risk of illness and death. This page offers a summary, the recommendations, and the full-text report in Spanish.
tb-indigenas-bol-07.htm

CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety
This resolution from the 27th Pan American Sanitary Conference in 2007 sets forth the PAHO mandate for providing effective, safe, efficient, accessible, appropriate, and satisfactory care for users, recognizing that policies are needed in the health sector that will impact the health care continuum, foster citizen involvement, and promote a culture of quality and safety in health care institution.
CSP27.R10

Situation Analysis of National Programs to Prevent Brucellosis and Tuberculosis by M. bovis: Inter-Agency Meeting (Mexico City, Mexico, 28 September 2007)
This meeting provided a venue to conduct a situation analysis of national programs to prevent brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis from Mycobacterium bovis with staff from control and erradication programs in the countries, along with recommendations to international organizations and the countries to mobilize resources for cooperation.
brucel-tub-bov-08.htm

2007-2008 XDR & MDR Tuberculosis Global Response Plan
This two-sided fact sheet lays out the impact, facts, response, objectives, milestones, and costs to control multidrug-resistant TB (TB-MDR) and extremely drug-resistant TB (TB-XDR) over the next two years. Summary
WHO Stop TB Dept.

Regional Meeting of Heads of National Tuberculosis Control Programs (Rio de Janeiro, 12–14 September 2006)
The theme of this meeting was The Americas Facing the Millennium Development Goals, Planning for the Implementation of the Stop TB Strategy and the Public-Private Mix Initiative. This page offers a summary in English and access to the 37-page report in Spanish.
tb-pnt-2006.htm

Frequently asked questions - XDR-TB
This fact sheet answers 18 of the most common questions on extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
WHO Stop TB Dept.

Regional Program on Tuberculosis: The Fight against TB in the Americas
This page describes the mission, areas of work, and expected results of the PAHO Regional TB Program, thus giving an idea of what PAHO is doing to fight against TB and the type of activities in which it is involved with its Member States.
tb-program-page.htm

Preparing TB Proposals to Submit to the Global Fund
This WHO page provides instructions on which tools to use when preparing project proposals for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). It also contains links to the recommended toolkits.
WHO Stop TB Dept.

Toolkit: Planning and Budgeting for TB Control
The goal of this tool is to support countries in developing their National Tuberculosis Control Plans for 2006-2015, to ensure that they are capable of meeting the global TB control targets for 2015. Important Note: To open this document, click OK on the virus warning and then "Enable Macros" in the next box. It is a heavy document and may take long to open. For further help, see the instructions.
Excel

WHA60.19: Tuberculosis Control: Progress and Long-Term Planning
This resolution of the 60th World Health Assembly in 2007 sets forth the global mandate for TB control and planning of services to deal with the TB epidemic, especially MDR-TB, XDR-TB, TB-HIV co-infection, and TB among disadvantaged groups. PAHO has adopted this mandate for the Americas.
WHA60.19

World TB Day 2007: From local action to global elimination — Tuberculosis anywhere is TB everywhere
This page contains the agenda, the PAHO presentation with a situation analysis, poster, and campaign brochure for World TB Day 2007 (23 March 2007), which concentrates on the involvement of communities as well as patients and their familiies.
tb-2007.htm

Prevention, control, and elimination of neglected diseases in the Americas: Pathways to integrated, inter-programmatic, inter-sectoral action for health and development
Over 210 million people in the Americas live below the poverty line. These impoverished and marginalized populations are heavily burdened with neglected communicable diseases. These diseases continue to enact a toll, not only on families and communities, but on the economically constrained countries themselves. The purpose of this paper is three fold. First, it focuses on a need for integrated "pro-poor" approaches and policies different from traditional approaches. Second, it outlines the need for a specific strategy for addressing these diseases and offers several entry points in the context of broad public health measures involving multiple sectors. Finally, the paper presents several initiatives from PAHO and other institutions that document the importance of integrated, inter-programmatic, and inter-sectoral approaches. Authors include PAHO experts from different areas and the PAHO Director. (BMC Public Health 2007, 7:6, doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-6)
BMC Public Health

The Revised TB Recording and Reporting Forms--Version 2006
The objective of this revision was to align forms and registries to the new Stop TB Strategy, in the sense that it will facilitate monitoring the components and subcomponents of the strategy and thus help meet the Millennium Development Goals. The new forms will improve the quality of patient care, will help personnel, will allow for monitoring program performance, and will provide a base for formulating policies and programs.
WHO Stop TB Dept.

The Stop TB Strategy
This page describes the vision, goals, objectives, and targets of the Global Stop TB Strategy. It contains a link to the one-page WHO fact sheet / poster as well as to the 24-pp strategy document in PDF.
WHO Stop TB Strategy Page

I^st Meeting on the Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL) Strategy (San José, Costa Rica, 4–6 December 2006)
The Practical Approach to Lung Health (PAL; in Spanish, Atención integrada de tuberculosis y enfermedades respiratorias, or AITER/PAL) is a syndromic approach to the management of patients who attend primary health care services for respiratory symptoms. The PAL strategy targets multi-purpose health workers, nurses, doctors, and managers in primary health care settings with successful TB control programs in low and middle-income countries. The objective of this meeting was to train the participating countries in how to adapt the methodology, elaborate plans, and implement and/or strengthen the PAL strategy within their health systems. This page offers a summary and the 60-pp report.
tb-pal-2006.htm

Regional Plan for Tuberculosis Control, 2006–2015
In response to the epidemiological challenge that tuberculosis (TB) represents, PAHO has declared TB a health priority for the Americas and hence developed this plan. Objectives are to extend and/or implement the DOTS Strategy, position TB control as a health priority of the Member Governments, and raise the awareness of partners and international donor agencies about the need to support the countries of the Region. This page contains a summary and a link to the 80-page plan in PDF. Chapter 2 provides an up-to-date analysis of the epidemiological situation.
tb-reg-plan-2006-15.htm tb-reg-plan-2006-15.pdf

Tuberculosis (TDR Fact Sheet and Research Resource Page)
This page offers basic information and access to WHO research resources. Tuberculosis is a priority disease in the Americas. The magnitude of the problem has increased with multidrug-resistant forms and HIV. It remains a disease of poverty. Major efforts are underway in the Americas to combat this disease.
WHO/TDR

Tuberculosis (WHO Fact Sheet No. 104)
This official fact sheet provides basic information in all the major areas of TB. Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease. Like the common cold, it spreads through the air. Only people who are sick with TB in their lungs are infectious. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. A person needs only to inhale a small number of these to be infected. The disease is considered a priority in the Americas.
WHO

The Burden of Neglected Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean Compared with Some Other Communicable Diseases
This graph makes a case for increased attention to neglected diseases by illustrating their tremendous disease burden as compared to other communicable diseases that receive a higher level of attention from health systems.
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CD47.R18: Health of the Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Taking note of the existence of inequities in health and access to health care services that affect more than 45 million indigenous people living in the Americas; and because the United Nations Millennium Declaration cannot be reached unless the specific health needs of excluded populations, such as indigenous peoples, are addressed, this resolution of the 47th PAHO Directing Council in 2006 sets for the mandate to take a multicultural approach to include these groups and work towards greater equity and better health for all.
CD47.R18

Basic Information on TB/HIV Co-Infection
This two-page fact sheet provides the basic information on TB/HIV co-infection, whereby people with HIV/AIDS or TB are more susceptible to developing the other infection. It answers fundamental questions and offers policy recommendations.
tb-hiv-fact-sheet.htm tb-hiv-fact-sheet.pdf

Toward Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment: 3 by 5 Report for the Americas
As governments, organizations, and individuals strive to combat AIDS deaths and the spread of HIV, we must all aim high. The magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its potential to spread require high level planning and large scale action. When the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS set the goal to treat three million people with antiretrovirals by 2005, it was with this aim to think big and achieve commensurate gains.
3X5AmericasReport.pdf

Communicable Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO: Aims, Strategies and Lines of Action
This page summarizes the mission, objectives, strategies and lines of action of the PAHO Communicable Disease Unit and describes what it hopes to accomplish through technical cooperation.
cd-unit-page.htm

Workshop to Develop an Implementation Methodology for the Public-Private Mix for Tuberculosis Control (PPM) (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 1–2 June 2006)
The Public-Private Mix (PPM) is an initiative developed by WHO to facilitate the incorporation of all health providers, both public and private, into the fight against tuberculosis. There is evidence that PPM is at least as cost-effective as the publicly-offered form of DOTS and much better that conventional private non-DOTS care. It could thus be concluded that PPM-DOTS is a feasible initiative, both productive and cost-effective, for increasing case-finding, improving treatment results and offering equitable access to care and more affordable care for the poor. This page offers a summary in English and access to the 76-page full-text report in Spanish.
tb-ppm-inf-bol.htm

Strategic Planning Workshop for Tuberculosis Control (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 28–30 May 2006)
The objectives of this meeting, attended by the 11 priority countries, were to (1) define goals for case-finding and treatment success rates of in priority countries for the period 2006–2015, in line with the existing epidemiological burden and the current status of TB control; (2) prepare a plan for control activities aimed at reaching case-finding and treatment success goals, using the planning model developed for the Global Plan; (3) estimate costs for Plan implementation in priority countries, using the costs model developed for the Plan; and estimate the epidemiological impact at both country and regional level. This page contains a summary in English and access to the final report in Spanish.
tb-taller-plan-06.htm

Engaging All Health Care Providers in TB Control: Guidance on Implementing Public-Private Mix Approaches
This document guides NTPs on how to engage all relevant health care providers in TB control and thereby promote the use of evidence-based International Standards for TB Care. This page offers a summary with access to the WHO document.
tb-ppm-app.htm WHO-PPM

International Clinical Trials Registry Platform
New standards for registration of human medical research (19 May 2006): WHO is urging research institutions and companies to register all medical studies that test treatments on patients or healthy volunteers. Registration of clinical trials –- including preliminary studies -- will be fundamental to ensuring transparency and fulfilling ethical responsibilities, thus publicly declaring and identifying the trials, so as to ensure that a minimum set of results be reported and made publicly available. This link to WHO provides access to the full text and other related articles in the Lancet.
WHO

III^rd Regional Workshop on TB Control in Prisons (San Salvador, El Salvador, 27–28 April 2006)
This activity, aimed at Prison Directors and Heads of National Tuberculosis Programs, included discussions on aspects related to tuberculosis control in prisons, sharing country experiences, discussing social-communication strategies for TB control in penal institutions, and establishing collaboration plans between Tuberculosis Programs and the prison sector. Special attention was devoted to the Salvadoran experience. This page contains a summary, conclusions, and recommendations and access to the full-text report.
tb-prisons-apr-06.htm

III^rd Regional Meeting on TB/HIV Interprogrammatic Collaboration Activities (San Salvador, El Salvador, 24–26 April 2006)
The objectives of this meeting were to analyze the implementation strategies in the Guidelines for HIV Surveillance among Tuberculosis Patients, per country; share experiences on TB/HIV comprehensive care, with emphasis on counseling and voluntary testing; follow up on the action plans developed in the 2004 meeting; and learn about Salvadoran experience. This page provides access to the agenda, conclusions and recommendations, and the final report.
tb-hiv-apr-06.htm

Investing in Global Health: 'Best Buys' and Priorities for Action in Developing Countries
These three new volumes from the World Bank Disease Control Priorities Project--Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2^nd ed.), Priorities in Health, and Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors--are part of an ongoing initiative to provide technical resources to improve the health systems, and ultimately the health of people, in developing countries.
DCP Site

Priorities in Health
Two overarching themes emerge from the extensive research and analyses in this World Bank publication: (1) Current resources can yield substantial health gains if knowledge of cost-effective interventions were applied more fully. (2) Additional resources are needed in low-income countries to minimize the glaring inequities in health care. Increased resources would provide highly-effective interventions, expand research, and extend basic health coverage to more people. WHO contributed to this publication.
DCPP

Guyana Observed World TB Day (24 March 2006) with a Week of Activities
With the central slogan "Actions for Life: Towards a World Free of Tuberculosis", multiple activities were carried out during the last week in Guyana in observance of World TB Day on 24 March 2006. This provides more details on the event in the format of a color flyer with pictures.
tb-guyana06.htm tb-guyana06.pdf

World TB Day 2006: Stop TB Strategy
This two-page flyer displays the Stop TB Strategy for 2006: Vision, Goal, Objectives, Targets, Components, Regional Plan, and Strategic Lines of Work. It is intended for distribution throughout the Region in conjunction with activities planned for World TB Day on 24 March 2006.
tbflyer06eng.pdf

Certificate: Actions for Life--Towards an America Free of Tuberculosis
This certificate, also available in high-resolution poster size, is intended to recognize the contributions of participating institutions in meeting the goal established for World TB Day 2006 (24 March), for their Daily actions that contribute to the control of tuberculosis, and save lives.
tb-cert-06-eng.pdf

ALCUEH: Health Collaboration Program among Latin American, the Caribbean and European countries
ALCUEH is a project that convokes expert professionals, researchers, decision-makers and representatives of agencies, interested in making alliances, in order to analyze relevant problems related to health, to identify possible strategies and solutions which can help improve health conditions in industrialized or developing countries.
ALCUEH

Final Report: Regional Interprogrammatic Meeting on TB/HIV (Mexico City, 9–10 September 2004)
This page contains the agreements made at the meeting on TB/HIV co-infection and on collaboration between national TB and HIV/AIDS programs and the corresponding PAHO Regional Programs. It also contains access to the 50-page full text in Spanish, with the contents translated on this page for user orientation.
tb-hiv-2004-informe.htm

Launch of Global Plan to Stop TB, 2006–2015, on 27 January 2006: Actions for Life—Towards a World Free of Tuberculosis
The Global Plan to Stop TB, 2006–2015, will be launched on 27 January 2006 at a series of media events around the world featuring a number of high-profile individuals dedicated to a TB-free world. The Global Plan is a comprehensive assessment of the action and resources needed to implement the Stop TB strategy, to make an impact on the global TB burden, and to reach the Stop TB Partnership's goals for 2015. This page provides a summary plus links to the Plan website (where the full plan can be downloaded) plus other links of relevance.
tb-global-plan-launch.htm Global Plan website

Workshop on Planning Communication for Tuberculosis Control in the Americas: Summary Report : Informe resumido (Cochabamba, Bolivia, 6–7 October 2005; prepared by Silvio Waisbord, Academy for Educational Development / AED)
This expert meeting in communication provided a venue not only for bringing together specialized consultants but also for forming a regional working group to continuously advise PAHO on the use of communication for tuberculosis control. Objectives were to form a group of consultants to provide technical assistance in planning communication for the National Tuberculosis Programs (NTPs), reach agreements on the terms and principles of mass communication, and define criteria and work operations.
tb-taller-cochabamba-oct-05.htm tb-taller-cochabamba-oct-05.pdf

CD46.R12: Regional Strategy for Tuberculosis Control for 2005-2015
This resolution of the 46th PAHO Directing Council establishes its mandate for TB control, namely through implementation of the newly developed and adopted Regional Strategy.
CD46.R12

PANAFTOSA Bibliographical Database, Veterinary Public Health Virtual Library (VHS)
The Veterinary Public Health Virtual Library (VHL) of the Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (PANAFTOSA) is the main repository for PAHO information on veterinary public health and zoonotic diseases. Its bibliographical database on scientific literature provides not only the reference but also an abstract and access to the downloadable full texts in PDF.
PANAFTOSA

Regional Events Directory, Veterinary Public Health
This list shows upcoming events in the area of veterinary public health, zoonoses, and animal health. It is kept updated by the Veterinary Public Health Virtual Library (VHS) of the Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (PANAFTOSA).
PANAFTOSA

CD46/14-Report of RIMSA14
Agenda item 4.9 for the 46th Directing Council, Washington, DC, September 2005.
cd46-14-e.pdf

CD46/18-Regional Strategy for the Control of Tuberculosis for 2005-2015
Agenda item 4.13 for the 46th Directing Council, Washington, DC, September 2005.
cd46-18-e.pdf

WHO Resources on Tuberculosis: A Selective List
This selected list of links will take the user to the main WHO sites on TB, including sites for TB/HIV, MDR-TB, gender and TB, Stop TB, the Global Drug Facility, epidemiological databases, DOTS, recent reports, activities, publications, etc.
tb-who-sitelist.htm

Addressing Poverty in TB Control: Options for National TB Control Programs
WHO's commitment to the promotion of equity and pro-poor policies in its disease prevention and control activities is based on the recognition of poverty as a major barrier to health and health care. In the case of TB, the links between poverty and disease burden have been documented for many years. This document addresses the integration of pro-poor measures in TB control programmes and offers guidance for national TB control programmes on the practical issues involved and options for action. This page offers access to the summary and the full text.
tb-who-poverty.htm

Workshop on Communication and Tuberculosis in the Americas (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, 31 May – 2 June 2005)
This workshop was organized by the PAHO Regional Program on Tuberculosis with technical assistance from the Stop TB Partnership and from Silvio Waisbord of the Academy for Educational Development in Washington, DC. Participants included Directors of National TB Programs (NTPs), staff in charge of communication and health promotion, representatives from patients' groups, and communications specialists. This page offers a summary and access to the final report in Spanish.
tb-com-social.htm

Barcelona Tuberculosis Research Unit (UITB)
The UITB objective is to produce relevant scientific knowledge on the control, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB. One of its projects is a network on research departments.
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TB Strategies to Meet the Millennium Development Goals: Regional Meeting of Heads of National TB Programs (NTPs) (Mexico City, 7–9 September 2004)
The final report (in Spanish) has just been published for this biannual meeting, the objectives of which were to become acquainted with the epidemiological and operational situation of TB of each country; evaluate progress made in applying the DOTS Strategy and in meeting the 2005 goals; become acquainted with the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT), the action plan, and the extent of DOTS application in those countries that will not achieve total coverage by 2005; to evaluate compliance with agreements and recommendations made at the last meeting in Cuba in 2002; and review and discuss the Regional Action Plan.
tb-pnts-2004.htm

RIMSA14/5-Report on the 10th Meeting of the Hemispheric Committee for the Eradication of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (COHEFA10)
Item 7 on the Agenda of the 14th RIMSA, Mexico, 21-22 April 2005.
rimsa14-05-e.pdf

RIMSA14/7-Report on the 4th Meeting of the Pan American Commission for Food Safety (COPAIA 4)

rimsa14-07-e.pdf

RIMSA14/25-Central American Regional Cooperation in Health and Agriculture—Catalytic Role of the Specialized Regional Agencies
Item 13.6 on the Agenda of the 14th RIMSA, Mexico, 21-22 April 2005.
rimsa14-25-e.pdf

RIMSA14/14-OIE

rimsa14-14-e.pdf

RIMSA14/3

March 24 World TB Day 2005: Health-Care Providers Heroes in the Fight against Tuberculosis
This year's World TB Day is dedicated to health workers, the true heroes in the fight against tuberculosis. This page summarizes the event and provides access to the educational materials produced for general distribution (brochure, poster and bookmark, all in color).
tb-2005.htm

Workshop: Capacity-Building for Tuberculosis Control, with Specific Focus on TB/HIV Control
Purpose: To build country capacity for tuberculosis control in the CAREC Member Countries (CMCs), taking into account that HIV epidemic represents the main threat for TB control. Objectives: Strengthen the National Tuberculosis Programs (NTPs) through the upgrading of knowledge and skills of managers and coordinators in all aspects of prevention and control of tuberculosis, including programme management, DOTS, surveillance, case detection, diagnosis, care and treatment and program operations; and improve the performance of National Tuberculosis Programs (NTPs) and National AIDS Programs (NAPs) regarding the control of the TB/HIV epidemic. This page offers access to the complete workshop CD.
tb-hiv-workshop-jam.htm CD

Public Health Agency of Canada's Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Site
This page contains the following sections, among others: What's New, Upcoming Events, FAQs, Tuberculosis Epi-Updates, Canadian Tuberculosis Committee, Surveillance Reports, Publications & Educational Resources, Links, and About Us.
Health Canada TB site

Interim Policy on Collaborative TB/HIV Activities
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic presents a massive challenge to the control of tuberculosis (TB) at all levels. Tuberculosis is also one of the most common causes of morbidity and one of the leading causes of mortality in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs). This document will assist policy-makers to understand what should be done to decrease the joint burden of tuberculosis and HIV. This page offers a summary and access to the full text on the WHO site and other useful links.
tb-hiv-policy.htm

Meeting of Supranational TB Reference Laboratories in the Americas (Santiago, Chile, 6-7 December 2004)
The PAHO Regional Program on Tuberculosis, with support from its Country Office in Chile and from the Institute of Public Health of Chile, will hold a meeting of the supranational TB reference laboratories certified by WHO for the Region of the Americas, from 6-7 December 2004 in Santiago.
tb-labs-2004-chile.htm

Adherence to Long-Term Therapies: Evidence for Action
This report provides a critical review of what is known about adherence to long-term therapies.This is achieved by looking beyond individual diseases. By including communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; mental and neurological conditions such as depression and epilepsy; substance dependence (exemplified by smoking cessation); as well as hypertension, asthma and palliative care for cancer, a broad range of policy options emerges.
WHO

Successful Experiences in Disease Control in Brazil Presented at Expoepi (Brasilia, 23-26 November 2004)
The Ministry of Health of Brazil and the Department of Health Surveillance (SVS), with PAHO participating, held the 4^th National Exhibit on Successful Experiences in Epidemiology and Disease Prevention and Control (Expoepi). The objectives of the event, the most important in its area in all Brazil, were to exhibit and award actions implemented in the cities and states that had a positive impact on the prevention and control of diseases of importance to public health, by improving the quality of epidemiological surveillance.
lep-expoepi-2004.htm

II^nd International Workshop on TB Control in Prisons (Lima, Peru, 18–20 August 2004)
This second workshop is aimed at national TB program and prison-system directors. Objectives are to present, analyze and discuss recent epidemiological data on TB in prisons in the Region; assess the progress made by National TB Programs (NTPs) and prison health authorities towards the action plans for TB control in prisons (developed at the first workshop); and strengthen collaboration between NTPs and prison authorities in the Region. Presentations, key documents, and Action Plan (in Spanish and Portuguese), as well as conclusions and agreements, now online via this page.
tb-prisons-2004.htm

Regional Core Health Data System - Indicators Glossary
Definition, technical note, type, measure units, categories, and subcategories for each indicator in the Regional Core Health Data System
glossary.htm

Regional Meeting to Analyze Access to Antitubercular Treatment in Indigenous Populations (Panama City, 13–15 October 2004)
The purpose of this meeting was to analyze the status of TB in indigenous populations of the Region and to discuss alternatives to improve access to effective treatment, taking into consideration the geographical, cultural, and financial factors faced by these peoples. The objectives were to (1) get to know the specific situation of TB vulnerability found among indigenous peoples; (2) analyze the factors that can impede their access to adequate diagnosis, treatment, and adherence; (3) discuss innovative alternatives and strategies to allow health services to increase the detection of new TB cases, treatment adherence and cure rates among these populations; and (4) formulate workplans to deal with the problems identified and improve access to treatment and adherence. This page contains the translated executive summary and recommendations and access to the 168-page report in Spanish.
tb-indigenas-pan.htm

Teaching Tuberculosis in Schools of Health: Report of an Expert Consultation (Cartagena, Colombia, 6–8 October 2004)
Tuberculosis is a serious public-health problem, against which the DOTS strategy constitutes the most effective global tool for TB control. Recent studies clearly revealed that one of the major limitations in DOTS expansion concerns the lack of human resources (HR), both in numbers and in terms of adequate skills and abilities. This is PAHO's second meeting in Columbia with teaching representatives from the countries, following up on the initial situation analysis and recommendations on how to improve teaching on tuberculosis in universities; it focuses on how to promote effective involvement of health schools in tuberculosis control. This page offers the summary in English and access to the full-text report in Spanish.
tb-fac-salud.htm

CD45.R3: Millennium Development Goals and Health Targets
This resolution from the 45th PAHO Directing Council in 2004 issues a series of mandates to advise countries on what they need to do to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
CD45.R3

Project to Strengthen TB Control Programs: Third Workshop (Georgetown Club, Georgetown, Guyana, 13–15 September 2004)
This third workshop--part of the planned program of activities for the Project to Strengthen National TB Control Programs in Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname--was held in collaboration with PAHO and CAREC and the Ministries of Health of the three countries. Its main purpose was to train participants in how to prepare a health-communication strategy for health-promotion activities in the area of TB control.
tb-3rd-workshop-guy.htm

Regional Interprogrammatic Meeting on TB/HIV (Mexico City, 9–10 September 2004)
The overall objective of this second regional meeting is to speed up effective joint response in the Americas on the part of TB and HIV/AIDS programs to the epidemic of tuberculosis associated with HIV. Specifically, it will follow up on concerted action plans from last year's workshop, discuss operational terms for the surveillance of HIV prevalence among TB patients, implement the Building Blocks strategy for comprehensive care, and introduce clinical management protocols for co-infection.
tb-hiv-2004.htm

Regional Meeting on Tuberculosis (Mexico City, 6–10 September 2004)
This week-long meeting, supported by PAHO's Country Office in Mexico City and from USAID, contains three different sessions on TB laboratory networks, National TB Programs (NTPs), and collaborative programs to provide comprehensive care for people living with TB/HIV co-infection. This page connects the user to each of the meetings.
tb-3mtgs-2004.htm

TB/HIV: A Clinical Manual
Recognition of the impact of HIV on the clinical management of TB prompted WHO to publish the first edition of this manual in 1996. In response to popular demand, the manual was adapted for different regions and translated into many languages.The total number of copies distributed has run to well over 100,000. Recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of the first edition and developments in the TB/HIV field have now prompted a second edition, with special focus on treating children.
tb-clinical-manual-who.htm

Guidelines for HIV Surveillance among Tuberculosis Patients (2^nd ed.)
The main objective of these guidelines is to provide a framework for the methods to be used for measuring HIV prevalence among tuberculosis patients and to encourage implementation of HIV surveillance. The guidelines are aimed at managers of national tuberculosis programs (NTPs) and national AIDS programs (NAPs), those responsible for HIV surveillance, and public-health decision-makers at national and subnational level. This page offers a summary, lists the recommendations, and links to the e-book on the WHO website.
tb-hiv-surv-who.htm

Report of a Lessons Learnt Workshop on the Six ProTEST Pilot Projects in Malawi, South Africa and Zambia (Durban, South Africa, 3–6 February 2003)
The ProTEST initiative was established in 1997 by WHO to develop a more coherent response to tuberculosis (TB) in settings with high HIV prevalence through collaboration between TB and HIV/AIDS control programs. HIV counseling and testing services were developed as the entry point to a package of prevention, care and support services. Six model ProTEST projects were established in three countries with a high burden of HIV-related TB; project results were reviewed during this workshop. This page offers the executive summary with results and conclusions and provides access to the full text on the WHO site.
tb-hiv-safrica-ProTest.htm

Tuberculosis along the United States-Mexico border, 1993–2001
The objectives of this research, primarily for the four states in the United States that are along the border with Mexico, were to: (1) describe the epidemiological situation of TB, (2) identify TB risk factors, and (3) discuss tuberculosis program strategies. This article has been published in the Pan American Journal of Public Health, July 2004.
Vol.16-1-Eileen.htm Revista/Journal

Tuberculosis: A Manual for Medical Students
This manual aims to inform medical students and medical practitioners about the best practices for managing tuberculosis patients, taking into account the community interventions defined by the National Tuberculosis Program. It contains basic information that can be used in training medical students; in supervised group work, presentations and discussions; in refresher courses for practicing physicians and for their personal study. PAHO is in the process of translating this manual into Spanish to appear presently via the PAHO website.
PowerPoint

Words from Dr. Mirta Roses, Director of PAHO, on World TB Day 2004
This brief speech (that can be heard on the video produced for the occasion) summarizes the situation that the Region faces in its fight against tuberculosis.
tb2004-Director.htm

”Every breath counts. Stop tuberculosis now!” World TB Day 2004
This page explains the meaning of this year's slogan and offers access to the poster and brochure for World TB Day 2004 and the accompanying year-long campaign. The goal for 2004-2005 is to reach the general public via mass media. This materials are put at the disposal of the public for education and consciousness-raising purposes.
tb2004.htm

Status of TB Operations (Region of the Americas, 2004)
This presentation of 13 slides—including tables, graphs and maps—summarizes the current status of operations to fight tuberculosis in the Americas up to 2004, the extension and the DOTS/TAES Strategy, and its respective accomplishments and challenges.
PowerPoint

Memorandum of Understanding between the American National Red Cross and the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization concerning Program Collaboration for Tuberculosis Control
This Memorandum of Understanding between The American Red Cross and PAHO will serve to provide a framework for continuing collaboration on community-based tuberculosis-control activities.
tb-arc-memo-understanding.htm

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM)
This resource page functions as an LAC clearinghouse for GFTAM, a coordinated effort of PAHO/WHO, UNAIDS and the LAC representative to the GFATM board (Brazil) to share information on the submission and implementation processes. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)is also supporting this effort. Documents will be routinely updated as the process moves forward.
gfatm.htm

Virtual Library in Veterinary Public Health (VHL PANAFTOSA)
The goal of the Virtual Health Library in Veterinary Public Health of the Pan American Center for Foot-and-Mouth Disease is to facilitate user access to different virtual information resources in the area of veterinary public health, at the national (i.e. in the countries) and international level.
VHL PANAFTOSA

Tuberculosis
This page offers the user a panoramic view of all PAHO materials on tuberculosis, organized according to the following categories: surveillance, prevention and control, PAHO activities, Other PAHO Materials, and General Information/Links. It also lists featured items for all categories containing the most important documents from each, and a side bar containing links to information systems, frequently requested items, upcoming events, etc.
tuberculosis.htm

Guidelines for Implementing Collaborative TB and HIV Programme Activities
The main aim of the guidelines is to enable the central units of national TB and HIV/AIDS programmes to support districts to plan, coordinate and implement collaborative TB/HIV activities. The guidelines are intended for countries with either an overlapping TB and HIV epidemic or where there is an increasing HIV rate which may fuel the TB epidemic. This page offers a summary of the guide and access to the full text on the WHO website.
tb-hiv-coll-guidelines-who.htm

Treatment of Tuberculosis: Guidelines for National Programmes (3^rd ed.)
The World Health Organization's Stop TB Department has prepared this third edition of Treatment of tuberculosis: guidelines for national programmes with the help of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and experts worldwide. The aim is to give practical guidance to national tuberculosis programmes (NTPs) and the medical profession in the effective management of TB.
tb-treatment-gl-who.htm

Chronic Lung Disorders.
This chapter of the book "Building Better Health: A Handbook of Behavioral Change"discusses how respiratory diseases can be prevented, even more easily than cured. Emphysema and all respiratory cancers could all be rare if only society applied the knowledge that it already has to prevent them. Risk factors as indoor and outdoor air pollution and primary prevention as well as secondary prevention (screening of workers) are discussed. This chapter also covers tuberculosis, since it is a chronic disease of the lungs. Pages 227-235 (Building Better Health: A Handbook of Behavioral Change, © PAHO, 2003) ((You can purchase this chapter)
Full Text

CD44.R6: Primary Health Care in the Americas: Lessons Learned over 25 Years and Future Challenges
This resolution from the 44th PAHO Directing Council in 2003, taking into consideration the Declaration of Alma-Ata and past PAHO resolutions, sets forth the mandate of improving the quality of primary care in the Americas: more equitable access to health services, improved surveillance and information systems in this context, improved training for healthcare workers, a health promotion approach, better policy implementation, local community-based approaches and models, working towards the Millennium Development Goals, etc.
CD44.R6

Workshop on TB/HIV Co-Infection (San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 14-15 August 2003)
This page offers the agenda, a summary, and access to a WHO presentation used at the meeting and various WHO references and sites. Participating in this Workshop were representatives from various Central American and Caribbean countries, with other countries of the Region invited to present and share their experiences. The Spanish version includes is the document containing the comprehensive-care guidelines for people living with TB-HIV and all 12 Powerpoint presentations. (PAHO presentations to be translated into English by end of September 2003.
tb-hiv-hon-2003.htm

Agreements: Workshop on Tuberculosis Control in Prisons (San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 11-13 August 2003)
This page offers the 11 key points for a Joint Action Plan among the authorities from each of the participating countries to try to deal with the growing problem of TB infection among prisoners.
tb-prisons-acuerdos.htm

Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals, 3rd edition. Vol. II Chlamydioses, Rickettsioses, and Viroses
This edition, published for the first time in three volumes, covers:

Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals, 3rd edition. Vol. III Parasitoses
This edition, published for the first time in three volumes, covers:

Reflections on TB/HIV and MDR
This 34-slide PowerPoint presentation was given in Honduras at the Workshop on TB/HIV Co-Infection in August 2003. It discusses the increased risk that people living with HIV/AIDS have of contracting the lethal form of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, as well as preventive methods and methodological problems that arise in survey measurements.
PowerPoint

Guidelines for the Surveillance of HIV among Tuberculosis Patients
This 13-slide Powerpoint presentation focuses on the relevance of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating epidemiological information of sufficient reliability and coverage with respect to the distribution and spread of HIV infection. This information is vital for planning, executing and monitoring of HIV/AIDS prevention and control activities.
WHO

International Workshop on Tuberculosis Control in Prisons (San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 11-13 August 2003)
The PAHO Regional Program on Tuberculosis, in collaboration the the Gorgas TB Initiative (University of Alabama at Birmingham), is holding a workshop on tuberculosis control in prisons/penitentiaries targeted at prison wardens and heads of national TB programs in Central American and Caribbean countries. Other countries of the Region participated to share their experiences. This page offers a summary and access to ten PowerPoint presentations and other resources.
tb-prisons-hon-2003.htm

Tuberculosis and Prisons
This 47-slide PowerPoint presentation provides a Regional overview of the situation of TB among prisoners: how it spreads, why this groups is at particular high risk, TB and HIV, treatment strategies, data tables, maps, etc.
PowerPoint

Tuberculosis and HIV in Prisons
This 14-slide PowerPoint presentation gives an overview of the current deadly mixture of TB and HIV and how the prison population is especially at risk: prevalence data, tables, maps, and what is being done to fight the epidemic.
PowerPoint

WHO, List of Links on Communicable Diseases (by topic)
This list of links gives the user direct access to the main WHO pages on the various communicable diseases or on themes related to them.
cd-who-links.htm

Zoonoses / Animal Health
This page offers the user a panoramic view of all PAHO materials on animal health and zoonoses (i.e. diseases that people can get from animals). The documents are organized according to the following categories: surveillance, prevention and control, PAHO activities, Other PAHO Materials, and General Information/Links. It also contains a listing of featured items for all categories with the most important documents from each, and a side bar containing frequently requested items, upcoming events, and/or new books.
zoonosis.htm

Pan American Journal of Public Health - Vol. 13, No. 5, May 2003
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health - Vol. 13, No. 5, May 2003
Online Bookstore

Strategic Alliance IICA/PAHO for Human Development and Prosperity in Rural Communities
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), both aware of the need to pool their capabilities in support of efforts to promote the development of their Member States, have decided to work more closely and systematically together in contributing to human development and prosperity in the rural communities of the Americas. This page, in brochure form, summarizes the collaboration of the two organizations.
paho-iica.htm

RIMSA13/4 - Proposed Action Plan for the Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center (PANAFTOSA), 2004-2005
Provisional Agenda item 6 for the 13th RIMSA
rimsa13-04-e.pdf

Global Tuberculosis Control: Surveillance, Planning, Financing
This is the 7th WHO annual report on global TB control. It includes data on case notifications and treatment outcomes from all national control programmes that have reported to WHO, together with an analysis of plans, finances, and constraints on DOTS expansion for 22 high-burden countries (HBCs). This page also provides access to the reports from previous years.
WHO

Tuberculosis: Number of Cases and AFB (+), Reduction Rate (Region of the Americas, by country and year, 2001–2002)
This table shows the incidence of TB and AFB (+) in the countries of the Americas for 2001 and 2002, along with the case-reduction rate in percentage.
tb-americas-2001-2002.doc tb-americas-2001-2002.pdf

TB Control in Prisons: A Manual for Programme Managers
The objective of this manual is to provide a practical tool for health workers considering embarking on TB control programs in prisons, covering structural and administrative, as well as medical issues. It is meant as an applicable tool for TB specialists who may have little knowledge of the prison context, as well as for for prison health professionals who may have less specialized knowledge of TB. It is primarily designed for use in settings where there is a high incidence of TB and limited resources. This page offers a summary with contents and access to the full text.
tb-who-manual.htm

WHO Disease Outbreak News
This link provides access to the latest WHO updates and archives on disease outbreaks throughout the world.
WHO

Regional Meeting of National Tuberculosis Control Program Heads (Havana, Cuba, 11-13 September 2002)
The objectives of this biannual meeting were to review of progress made in compliance with the recommendations of the Mexico meeting in September 2000; review the status of DOTS/TAES in the Region and the fulfillment of plans to expand the strategy in those countries that do not have total coverage (WHO Goals); analyze relative aspects to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM); consolidate strategic partnerships with members for the plans to control TB; and discuss the Regional Strategic Plan for 2003-2004. This page contains an executive summary with access to the final report in Spanish, which contains a comprehensive series of tables and graphs.
tb-reunion-pnt-habana-2002.htm

Related Sites: Tuberculosis
This page contains links to external sites (in English, Spanish, French, German, Flemish and Dutch) of PAHO's partners and collaborators in the area of tuberculosis prevention and control. As such, it is a useful information resource and networking tool.
tb-links.htm

World TB Day Theme for 2002: Stop TB, Fight Poverty
The proposed theme for World TB Day 2002 is "Stop TB, fight poverty". The theme suggests that tackling TB, one of several illnesses that affect the poor, is one way of achieving greater global prosperity. This page gives the user access to an abstract with basic facts and figures and the global objectives, as well as to the Executive Summary and the official poster.
tb-2002.htm

Technical Guidelines for Disaster Situations - Index
Practical Public Health Information for disaster situations prepared by PAHO's technical divisions.
tguidelines_menu.htm

Report of the 2^nd Stop TB Americas Meeting (Brasilia, 27-29 March 2001)
The 2nd Stop TB Americas Meeting was held from 27 to 29 March 2001 in Brasilia, Brazil in which National Program Managers, authorities from the Ministries of Health and representatives from other health sector institutions analyzed the challenges for DOTS expansion in their countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Peru and the Dominican Republic). Strategic partners in TB control in the Region presented their current projects, perspective for future collaboration and took the opportunity to discuss possibilities for improved coordination efforts. This web page provides a short summary and offers access to the full-text meeting report.
stop-tb.htm

List of Participants (by country): 2nd Stop TB Americas Meeting (Brasilia, Brasil, 27-29 March 2001)
This list of international tuberculosis specialists participating in the 2nd Stop TB Americas--complete with address, phone, fax and e-mail--serves as a useful tool for networking and exchange purposes.
stop-tb-participants.htm

Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals, 3rd edition. Vol. I Bacterioses and Mycoses
This edition, published for the first time in three volumes, covers:

XIV Technical Advisory Group Meeting on Vaccine Preventable-Diseases (TAG)
Conclusions and Recommendations of the The XIV Technical Advisory Group Meeting on Vaccine Preventable-Diseases (TAG) of the Pan American Health Organization, was held in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, October 2-5, 2000
tag_14.htm tag14_conclusions.pdf

Regional Evaluation Meeting of National TB Control Programs (Mexico, 11-14 September 2000)
The Regional TB Meeting included the participation of program managers from 19 countries in the Region, as well as representatives from international organizations that support TB programs. This page offers a short summary with the objectives of the meeting and subsequent recommendations, as well as access to the full-text meeting report.
tb-eval-reg-2000.htm

Photo Gallery: Communicable Diseases
This is just a sample of the photographs available at the Public Information Office of the Pan American Health Organization. The resolution is suitable for use on web pages, higher resolutions are available upon request. The photos are free to use, but credit should be given to the Pan American Health Organization.
categ03.htm

Statistical Tables, TB in the Americas: Incidence, National Programs, DOTS Coverage
This page offers three tables with statistics on TB in the Americas: Reported New TB Cases in 1998 and 1999 and Percentage Change (1998 and 1999); Mobilization of Resources for TB Programs, 2001; and Principal Indicators of Detection and Coverage of the DOTS Strategy in Prioritized Counries, 1999.
tb-data.htm

Perspectives in Health - Volume 1, Number 1, 1996
Magazine published twice a year by the Pan American Health Organization. This edition features the following articles: The Camera Lens as Chronicler - Relearning Lessons of the Greeks - The Economics of the Heart - Designing With Disaster in Mind - Fred Cuny, Formulator of Fast-Track Relief
Number1_index.htm

Second Meeting of a Surveillance Network for Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) in the Southern Cone Region (Brasilia, Brazil, 11-13 May 1999)
The goal of this second meeting was to continue efforts to establish a functional network of laboratories within the greater Southern Cone Region--Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay--capable to obtain accurate, high-quality laboratory results on new, emerging and re-emerging infections found in the Region.
brasilia.htm

Guidelines for the Control of Tuberculosis in Prisons
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have joined forces to produce these guidelines. The goal is to improve the control of tuberculosis in prisons and other institutions where people are incarcerated. The guidelines apply wherever people are in custody: prisons, police stations, remand centers, detention centers for asylum-seekers, secure hospitals, penal colonies and prisoner-of-war camps.
tb-prisons-who-rc.htm

WHA51.13: Tuberculosis
In 1998, the 51st World Health Assembly passed this resolution, which established the WHO global mandate for the fight against TB, which was adopted by PAHO for the Americas. It also set aside one day every year as World TB Day.
tb-wha51-13-eng.pdf

Meeting to Establish a Network of Laboratories for the Surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) in the Southern Cone Region: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 17-19 April 1998
The main goal of the meeting was to create a functional network of laboratories within the greater Southern Cone Region--Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay--capable of obtaining accurate, high-quality laboratory results on new, emerging and re-emerging infections found in the Region. This page summarizes the objectives and conclusions of the meeting and provides access to the full-text conference report.
doc429.htm doc429.pdf