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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE)
CDC/DTBE provides programmatic consultation to local and state health departments including onsite
assistance for outbreaks and medical consultation for management of individual patients. CDC/DTBE also
provides information on current guidelines and their interpretation.
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Appendix 3 .
International Resources for TB Treatment and Policies
The following websites are potential sources of information about the various TB protocols practiced in countries with high rates of immigration to the United States:
World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Report compiles data from 200 countries,
monitoring the scale and direction of TB epidemics, implementation and impact of the Stop TB Strategy, and
progress towards the Millennium Development Goals: www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/en/
A special supplement to the Global Tuberculosis Report (2014) titled, Drug-resistant TB—Surveillance & Response, marks the 20th anniversary of the Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance and
its TB Supranational Reference Laboratory Network:
• Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis, 2011 updatewww.who.int/tb/publications/tb-drugresistant-guidelines/en/
• Companion handbook to the WHO guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis, 2014www.who.int/tb/publications/pmdt_companionhandbook/en/
The WHO website provides links to, and contact information for TB programs located throughout the world:
www.who.int/topics/tuberculosis/en/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Division of Tuberculosis Eliminationwww.cdc.gov/tb/
• Global Tuberculosis Branch, Division of Global HIV/AIDSwww.cdc.gov/globalaids/
• Division of Global Migration and Quarantinewww.cdc.gov/ncezid/dgmq/
GHDonline is a platform for online communities for health care professionals to connect and discuss
challenges in care delivery, part of the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University.
• MDR-TB Treatment and Prevention: www.ghdonline.org/drtb/
• TB Infection Control: www.ghdonline.org/ic/
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USAID is working in 26 countries to improve TB services
The International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC); the Patients’ Charter for Tuberculosis Care; ISTC Handbook; and ISTC Training Materials (includes translated materials)