Policy guidelines for collaborative TB and HIV services for injecting and other drug users: an integrated approach

World Health Organization.

These guidelines aim to provide a strategic approach to reducing morbidity and mortality related to TB and HIV among at-risk drug users and their communities in a way that promotes holistic and person-centered services. They are intended for professionals dealing with the drug users who have the most pro...

Tuberculosis Pulmonar/prevención & control, Infecciones Oportunistas Relacionadas con el SIDA/prevención & control, Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/prevención & control, Prestación Integrada de Atención de Salud/organización & administración, Política de Salud, Infecciones por VIH/epidemiología, Tuberculosis Pulmonar/epidemiología, Abuso de Sustancias por Vía Intravenosa/complicaciones

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Practical approach to lung health: manual initiating PAL implementation

World Health Organization.

In June 2005, WHO’s Strategic, Technical and Advisory Group on TB approved the new Stop TB Strategy, which was endorsed by the Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board in November 2005. The new Strategy was designed to deal with challenges and obstacles that slow the progress in achieving tuberculosis co...

Tuberculosis Pulmonar/prevención & control, Tuberculosis Pulmonar/diagnóstico, Atención Primaria de Salud, Sistemas de Salud/organización & administración

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Implementing the WHO Stop TB Strategy: a handbook for national tuberculosis control programmes

World Health Organization.

Since the publication of the Tuberculosis handbook by the World Health Organization in 1998, important changes have taken place in the global context in which control of tuberculosis (TB) is carried out. Firstly, the DOTS strategy has been adopted by virtually all countries during the past decade, althou...

Tuberculosis Pulmonar/diagnóstico, Tuberculosis Pulmonar/prevención & control, Sistemas de Salud/organización & administración, Vacuna BCG/inmunología, Tuberculosis Pulmonar/terapia, Monitoreo Epidemiológico

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Stop TB policy paper: contributing to health system strengthening: guiding principles for national tuberculosis programmes

World Health Organization.

This is a dynamic and challenging time for those working in public health, in global health cooperation, and in tuberculosis control specifically. As a result of commitments to health at the highest political levels, there are unprecedented opportunities for expanding response to disease epidemics and si...

Atención a la Salud/organización & administración, Planes de Sistemas de Salud, Tuberculosis Pulmonar/prevención & control, Programas Nacionales de Salud, Política de Salud

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Community involvement in tuberculosis care and prevention: towards partnerships for health: guiding principles and recommendations based on a WHO review

World Health Organization.

Until very recently, the approaches to TB care and control have been focused in most settings on the essential public health and medical interventions with very limited scope to contribution by communities. And yet, the issue of community involvement in public health approaches and in the delivery of hea...

Tuberculosis Pulmonar/prevención & control, Planificación en Salud Comunitaria/normas, Justicia Social, Programas Nacionales de Salud, Defensa del Consumidor, Directrices para la Planificación en Salud

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