Essential Health Links: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases/Tuberculosis


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Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World
Brown University: TB/HIV Research Laboratory
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S: Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
Health and Development Initiative India
International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Tuberculosis
Radiographic Manifestations of Tuberculosis
SA HealthInfo: Tuberculosis
TB Education Training Resources
TB Online Training Course
TB Training Tool
tb.net-the Global TB Network
WHO: Global Tuberculosis Program

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Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The E-Book is an extensive study of the issue of drug resistance to tuberculosis. The book can be downloaded in whole or parts as pdf files. It is updated periodically and maintained by the WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme, Geneva. From this page, there are links to other WHO tuberculosis-related texts. http://www.who.int/tb/publications/en/

Brown University: TB/HIV Research Laboratory
This site includes information on the immunopathology and epidemiology of TB/HIV infection and tuberculosis vaccine development. It is maintained by Brown University, U.S. http://tbhiv.biomed.brown.edu/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S: Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
This is an authoritative site for "frequently asked questions" on tuberculosis, calendar of events, tuberculosis notes, newsletter, other educational materials plus links to related websites. http://www.cdc.gov/tb/default.htm

Global Alliance for TB Drug Development   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The TB Alliance is a public-private partnership that fosters the development of new, faster and affordable tuberculosis medicines. The site describes the organization, its projects and collaborations and includes the Alliance's newsletter. The organization is based in New York, Brussels and Cape Town. http://www.tballiance.org/home/home.php

Health and Development Initiative India   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Health and Development Initiative is an India-based non-governmental organization, which focuses on tuberculosis education for patients and healthcare providers. The site includes annotated links to training tools and online courses plus information about tb policies and practices. http://www.healthinitiative.org/html/index.htm

International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French, Spanish)
The IUATLD website provides full-text access to the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, plus several full-text guides for low-income countries: Management of Tuberculosis; Sputum Examination for Tuberculosis by Direct Microscopy; and Management of the Child with Cough or Difficult Breathing. This guide is available at http://www.iuatld.org/full_picture/en/home_news/prehome_v2.phtml in English and French. http://www.iuatld.org

PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Tuberculosis (14000+)
This PubMed search will identify all tuberculosis related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext artcles that are added to the PubMed database weekly. Essential Health Links contains similar searches for most subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22tuberculosis%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20tuberculosis%5BText%20Word%5D%29

Radiographic Manifestations of Tuberculosis
This site is divided into three chapters: basic chest radiographic manifestations, radiographic manifestations of tuberculosis and clinical cases. It contains a glossary and is available in English and Spanish.. The site is maintained by the Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center, U.S. http://www.nationaltbcenter.edu/courses/

SA HealthInfo: Tuberculosis   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The South African Medical Research Council has developed this resource, which contains links to information and links to international sources of TB information. http://www.sahealthinfo.org/tb/tb.htm

Stop TB Partnership   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Stop TB Initiative aims to ensure universal access to TB information and treatment, protection of vulnerable populations, and reduction the social and economic burden of TB. The site includes full-text articles and news updates plus links to relevant websites. http://www.stoptb.org/

TB Education & Training Resources
This website is mainly for providers of health care and health education, The site provides a searchable database of materials on TB education, training, and public awareness. It also contains links to TB related sites, organizations, funding sources, listservs and digests, and events. Much of the site is specific to the U.S. but the site also includes substantial international materials. It is maintained by the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease Control, U.S. http://www.findtbresources.org/scripts/index.cfm

TB Online Courses
This site offers free access to two self-paced courses: TB & HIV: An Online Course for Clinicians; and Quality Improvement for TB Case Management: An Online Course. Each course can be completed in 1-2 hours. Some of the content is US-centric and assumes availability of medium- to high-level resources. The courses have been developed by the Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center, U.S. http://www.nationaltbcenter.edu/courses/

TB Training Tool   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The site contains information on resources for TB training programmes. The training tools are in various formats with some available free on the Internet. http://www.healthinitiative.org/html/tbtraining/index.htm

tb.net-the Global TB Network  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
tb.net is a resource centre for information about tuberculosis - about the disease itself, and also about training programmes, conferences, computer software, organizations, and databases. The site contains links to extensive clinical information. http://www.south-asia.com/ngo-tb/Default.htm

WHO: Global Tuberculosis Program  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Including a description of the work of the WHO 'Stop TB Department, this is a comprehensive epidemiological site contains information on the latest tuberculosis facts and figures. It provides links to fulltext (pdf) files of numerous WHO clinical and policy documents.Many of the documents are available in several languages. Ths site also includes links to related websites. http://www.who.int/tb/en/

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Updated: 09 April 2008