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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.
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Prevention and Control

Featured Prevention and Control Items

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.
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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.
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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.
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Disease Management Guidelines

Sterilization Manual for Health Centers

Guide for TB/HIV Counselling and Testing in Tuberculosis Programs

Engaging All Health Care Providers in TB Control: Guidance on Implementing Public-Private Mix Approaches

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)

Reports

Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World: Fourth Global Report

The Revised TB Recording and Reporting Forms--Version 2006

TB Strategies to Meet the Millennium Development Goals: Regional Meeting of Heads of National TB Programs (NTPs) (Mexico City, 7–9 September 2004)

Global Tuberculosis Control: Surveillance, Planning, Financing

Governing Bodies Resolutions and Policy Documents

WHA60.19: Tuberculosis Control: Progress and Long-Term Planning

The Stop TB Strategy

Regional Plan for Tuberculosis Control, 2006–2015

Agreements: Workshop on Tuberculosis Control in Prisons (San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 11-13 August 2003)

Toolkits

Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization for TB Control: A Guide to Developing Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Surveys

Guide for TB/HIV Counselling and Testing in Tuberculosis Programs

Preparing TB Proposals to Submit to the Global Fund

Toolkit: Planning and Budgeting for TB Control

Population Groups

Guide for Tuberculosis Control in Populations Deprived of Liberty in Latin America and the Caribbean

Fourth Regional Meeting on TB and TB/HIV in Prisons (San José, Costa Rica, 4-5 November 2008)

Guide for TB/HIV Counselling and Testing in Tuberculosis Programs

An Integrated Approach to Controlling Tuberculosis in Indigenous Populations (Cochabamba, Bolivia, 23-24 October 2007)

Social Communication

Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) for Tuberculosis Control: A Handbook for Country Programmes

Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization for TB Control: A Guide to Developing Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Surveys

World TB Day 2007: From local action to global elimination — Tuberculosis anywhere is TB everywhere

Basic Information on TB/HIV Co-Infection

Advocacy

Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) for Tuberculosis Control: A Handbook for Country Programmes

Basic Information on TB/HIV Co-Infection

III^rd Regional Meeting on TB/HIV Interprogrammatic Collaboration Activities (San Salvador, El Salvador, 24–26 April 2006)

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)

Comprehensive Care

Guide for TB/HIV Counselling and Testing in Tuberculosis Programs

Final Report: Regional Interprogrammatic Meeting on TB/HIV (Mexico City, 9–10 September 2004)

Regional Interprogrammatic Meeting on TB/HIV (Mexico City, 9–10 September 2004)

Best Practices

Tuberculosis: A Manual for Medical Students

Quality Control

Strengthening Tuberculosis Laboratories

Manual for the Bacteriological Diagnosis of Tuberculosis: Standards and Technical Guidelines—Part 1, Smear Tests

Manual for the Bacteriological Diagnosis of Tuberculosis: Standards and Technical Guidelines—Part 2, Cultures

CSP27.R10: Regional Policy and Strategy for Ensuring Quality of Health Care, Including Patient Safety

National Programs

Regional Meeting of Heads of National Tuberculosis Control Programs (Rio de Janeiro, 12–14 September 2006)

Toolkit: Planning and Budgeting for TB Control

Strategic Planning Workshop for Tuberculosis Control (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 28–30 May 2006)

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)

Regional Strategies

Regional Plan for Tuberculosis Control, 2006–2015

Strategic Planning Workshop for Tuberculosis Control (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 28–30 May 2006)

TB Strategies to Meet the Millennium Development Goals: Regional Meeting of Heads of National TB Programs (NTPs) (Mexico City, 7–9 September 2004)

Status of TB Operations (Region of the Americas, 2004)

Global Strategies

The Stop TB Strategy

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)

Launch of Global Plan to Stop TB, 2006–2015, on 27 January 2006: Actions for Life—Towards a World Free of Tuberculosis

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