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Bending the Curve - Keeping our Promise of Ending TB in the South-East Asia Region on time

World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia (2018) C_WHO

TB Control in Prisons

J. Noeske INTECH (2012) C2

A Guidance for Tuberculosis Prevention and Control in Indigenous Populations in the Region of the Americas

Pan American Health Organisation PAHO (2021) C_WHO

Tuberculosis continues to represent a severe public health problem in the Region of the Americas, even more so in the case of indigenous peoples, whose TB incidence is much higher than that of the g ... eneral population. To achieve tuberculosis control in these communities, it is necessary to respond to communities’ diverse needs from an intercultural perspective that allows the application of a holistic approach—from a standpoint of equality and mutual respect—and considers the value of their cultural practices. In the Region of the Americas, although there has been progress toward recognizing the need for an intercultural approach to health services, obstacles rooted in discrimination, racism, and the exclusion of indigenous peoples and other ethnic groups persist. To respond to this situation, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) prepared this guidance which––based on an intercultural approach in accordance with the priority lines of the current PAHO Policy on Ethnicity and Health and its practical development in the Region’s indigenous populations––represent a support tool for implementing the End TB Strategy. This publication integrates PAHO’s accumulated experience and best practices developed by its Member States in recent years, including discussions and experiences shared in regional meetings on the issue, and emphasizes innovation and social inclusion. This requires an urgent shift away from traditional paradigms, taking specific actions that gradually reduce TB incidence and moving toward effective multisectoral actions that have proven effective in quickly containing the epidemic. This publication integrates PAHO’s accumulated experience and best practices developed by its Member States in recent years, including discussions and experiences shared in regional meetings on the issue, and emphasizes innovation and social inclusion. This requires an urgent shift away from traditional paradigms, taking specific actions that gradually reduce TB incidence and moving toward effective multisectoral actions that have proven effective in quickly containing the epidemic. more

GLI Guide to TB Specimen Referral Systems and Integrated Networks

Global Laboratory Initiative (GLI), Stop TB Partnership (2018) C1

This guide includes information relevant for tuberculosis (TB) program and laboratory managers, as well as Ministry of Health officials across disease programs interested in establishing integrated solutions for specimen referral. Though ... more

Empowering communities - To END TB with the ENGAGE-TB approach

World Health Organization (2015) C_WHO

Engage - TB WHO/HTM/TB/2015.27

Trends in tuberculosis notification and treatment outcomes in prisons: a country-wide assessment in El Salvador from 2009–2014

G. Ayala, J. Garay, M. Aragon, et al. Pan American Journal of Public Health (2016) C2

Investigación original / Original research Panam Salud Publica. 2016;39(1):38–43.

WHO Information Note: COVID-19 considerations for tuberculosis (TB) care

World Health Organization WHO (2021) C_WHO

5 May 2021 This Information Note is intended to assist national TB programmes and health personnel worldwide to maintain essential tuberculosis (TB) services during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the ... more

Epidemiology and control of tuberculosis in the Western Pacific Region: update with 2013 case notification data

T. Hiatta and N. Nishikior WPSAR; WHO (2016) C_WHO

Regional Analysis. WPSAR Vol 7, No 2, 2016 | doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.4.010

UNITE to End TB

World Health Organization (2016) C_WHO

On the road to ending TB Highlights from the 30 highest TB burden countries

National Tuberculosis Control Program Integrated TB HIV Program Report (January-June 2015), Malawi

Government of Malawi, Ministry of Health (2015) C1

User experience analysis of e-TB Manager, a nationwide electronic tuberculosis recording and reporting system in Ukraine

N. Konduri, K. Sawyer, N. Nizova (2017) CC

ERJ Open Res 2017; 3: 00002-2017

Diagnosis and Treatment Outcomes of Tuberculosis in Relation to Gender and HIV Status in South Benin

Ablo Prudence Wachinou, Serge Ade, Gildas Agodokpessi, Berenice Awanou, Dissou Affolabi, Wilfried Bekou, Marius Esse, Gabriel Ade, Severin Anagonou, Anthony D. Harries,1Programme National contre la Tuberculose (PNT), Cotonou, Bénin Journal of Tuberculosis Research (2017) C2

Journal of Tuberculosis Research, 2017, 5, 189-200 Background: In Benin, little is known about the influence of both gender and HIV-status on diagnostic patterns and treatment outcomes of Tuberculosis (TB) patients. Objective: To assess whether ... more

SMILE OVC program uses targeted approach to boost TB case-finding among vulnerable children

Catholic Relief Services CRS (2018) CC

In 2016 CRS leveraged the robust infrastructure of its large, multi-sectoral orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) program in Nigeria by expanding the program's core mandate to include community childhood TB casefinding, with a focus on highly vulne ... more

Fight for what counts. Investment Case

The Global Fund (2022) CC

Over the 20 years that followed, this unique partnership has invested more than US$53 billion, saving 44 million lives and reducing the combined death rate from the three diseases by more than half in the countries in which the Global Fund invests.

Uptake of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy among Under-Five Children: TB Contact Investigation as an Entry Point

Y. Tadesse, N. Gebre, S. Daba, et al. PLOS One (2016) CC

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