Links The Internet is a rich source of information about TB. This section presents direct links to select Internet sites that provide information on TB and related health issues. Disclaimer: The information on the TB Education and Training Resources website is made available as a public service. Neither the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nor the National Prevention Information Network endorses the organizations, websites, and materials presented. It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate this information prior to use based on individual, community, and organizational needs and standards. A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X Y  Z A AllAfrica.com: TB News from Africa AllAfrica Global Media aggregates and indexes content from over 300 news organizations and sources. The articles are posted on the website in English and French. A tuberculosis specific page provides access to articles about TB in Africa. http://allafrica.com/tuberculosis American Lung Association This website answers frequently asked questions about the causes of TB infection and TB disease, and about TB testing and treatment. www.lungusa.org/ American Thoracic Society (ATS) This website provides online access to ATS journals: the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. It also provides practice tips for providers, information on educational opportunities, and tools for advocating for federal and state respiratory health issues. www.thoracic.org Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations This website provides contact information for a TB guide developed by the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations. It also offers publications on TB in a variety of Asian languages. www.aapcho.org back to top B Brown University TB/HIV Research Laboratory This website provides information on Brown University's TB and HIV research, prevention, and treatment activities. research.brown.edu/research/labs.php back to top C Cambridge Health Alliance This website provides information on the Cambridge Health Alliance, an integrated health care system that serves the residents of Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston’s Metro-North region. http://www.challiance.org Canada's Role in Fighting Tuberculosis This website provides general information about TB and discusses the history of TB and its status today in Canada. www.lung.ca/tb Case Western Reserve Tuberculosis Research Unit This website provides information on Case Western's TB prevention and research activities-including their work in epidemiology, immunology, and microbiology; their specimen repository and coordinating center; and their eight affiliated research sites. www.tbresearchunit.org CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE) The DTBE website includes major TB guidelines, TB-related MMWRs, and Surveillance Reports. It also offers online ordering of educational materials, links to other TB-related sites, and answers to frequently asked questions. The site's "What's New" section highlights recent publications, products, reports, and events. www.cdc.gov/tb/ CDC En Espanol This website provides general TB information in Spanish, including information on TB disease and TB infection. www.cdc.gov/spanish/enfermedades/tb.html CDC Fast Stats: Tuberculosis This Web page provides data compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics about TB in the United States. www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/infectis.htm CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report This website offers a searchable index of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWRs). The MMWR series, prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a key vehicle for disseminating prevention, control, screening, and treatment guidelines. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/distrnds.html CDC National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID) NCID works to prevent illness, disability, and death caused by infectious diseases in the United States and around the world. NCID's online journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases (www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm), published six times a year, offers scientific articles about emerging infectious diseases, including TB. NCID's Tuberculosis/Mycobacteriology Branch website (ww.cdc.gov/ncidod/dastlr/TB/default.htm) provides information on laboratory studies on the microbiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry of mycobacteria and the pathogenesis and immunology of mycobacterial infections. www.cdc.gov/ncidod CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health This website provides searchable databases and information about the prevention of work-related illnesses and injuries, including the prevention and control of occupational transmission of TB. www.cdc.gov/niosh CDC National Prevention Information Network This website offers searchable databases of educational materials, funding opportunities, and organizations providing TB-related services. A subpage called "The Connections" discusses the interconnection between TB, STDs, and HIV/AIDS, underscoring the critical need for targeted TB screening and preventive treatment programs for HIV-infected persons. www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/locates/LocateMatl.asp CDC State TB Control Offices This Web page provides a complete list of state TB control offices and includes contact information for these offices. www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/tboffices.htm Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center The Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center develops and implements training programs tailored to local communities and to health care workers, and it develops and uses innovative methods for the prevention, treatment, and elimination of TB through community partnerships. Services include training programs, behavioral research, epidemiological data analysis, statistical reporting, and contact tracing. Contact the center directly for a catalog of resources and courses. www.harlemtbcenter.org Chest Medicine On-Line This peer-reviewed online journal publishes information about respiratory medicine, including TB. www.priory.com/chest.htm Clinical Infectious Diseases The online version of this journal, available by subscription only, is published by the Infectious Disease Society of America. www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/home.html Columbia University Medical Informatics This website provides general information, in both English and Spanish, about TB. vesta.cumc.columbia.edu/dbmi/facdb/profile/services.php?view=2 D Danida Assisted Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (DANTB) This website provides information about DANTB, a program located in India and sponsored by the Danish government, which is dedicated to bringing down the incidence of TB in India. www.dantb.org back to top E Emerging Infectious Diseases This online journal from the CDC publishes scientific articles about emerging infectious diseases. www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid Ethnomed This website contains information regarding cultural beliefs as they relate to medical and other health care issues, including TB, of recent immigrants to the United States. Materials are available in a variety of languages, including Amharic, Somali, and Vietnamese. ethnomed.org EurasiaHealth TB Knowledge Network The EurasiaHealth TB Knowledge Network (ETKN) is a central clearinghouse of English- and Russian-language TB guidelines and other resources that provide networking and learning opportunities for health professionals in the region. ETKN’s website offers information on regional TB projects, funding opportunities, and conferences, and houses hundreds of documents and resources that have been translated into Russian. The site also features discussion forums that link scientists, community activists, government officials, and other experts working on TB-related projects in the region. http://www.eurasiahealth.org/eng/tb EuroTB: Surveillance of Tuberculosis in Europe This website provides TB surveillance data from 52 countries in Europe. The website includes annual reports, slide sets, recommendations, data collection materials, country profiles, and other publications. www.eurotb.org back to top F Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri Care and Research Institute- WHO Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases This website provides information about the institute, current training courses that are offered, previous courses, and future courses. http://www.stoptbitalia.it/who/index.html Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center The Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center is one of four Regional Training and Medical Consultation Centers funded by the CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination. The goal of the San Francisco-based center is to decrease TB morbidity through training, technical assistance, demonstration projects, and enhanced program activities. The center offers clinical consultation on medically difficult cases and consultation to TB control staff in high-risk settings in California. www.nationaltbcenter.edu back to top G German Leprosy and TB Relief Association (Deutsche Lepra-und Tuberkulosehilfe - GLRA/DAHW) This German-language website provides information about the organization, projects and upcoming events, TB and Leprosy, and membership. The website provides downloads of posters, e-cards, and other materials. In addition, there is an special section of the website developed for children. www.dahw.de/dahw.php/cat/53/title/About+GLRA Global Health Facts GlobalHealthFacts.org, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-access data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses. http://www.globalhealthfacts.org Gorgas Memorial Institute This website provides information on Initiative for Tuberculosis Control projects, access to TB publications, and links to related resources. gorgas.dom.uab.edu/ back to top H Health and Development Initiative - India (HDI) HDI is a non-profit organization based in the North Indian state of Punjab. Its objectives are to contribute toward TB and HIV control in India and promote rational drug use among health care providers. HDI's website provides links for distance learning resources and information on TB control management training programs. HDI publishes the e-newsletter TB News from India and an independent drug bulletin titled Drug Panorama. www.healthinitiative.org/html/index.htm Health & Development Networks (HDN) Health & Development Networks (HDN) is a non-profit organization with substantial experience in managing and moderating electronic discussion forums and providing communication support to conferences. http://www.hdnet.org Health Communication Partnership (HCP) The Health Communication Partnership (HCP) links five leading institutions together to accomplish its goal of strengthening public health in the developing world through strategic communication programs. The HCP Web site offers late-breaking lessons learned from field programs worldwide. The website also provides forums for those working with HCP or in the field of health communication, advocacy, and community mobilization to share and learn from other similar programs. This site includes access to the Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC), the Health Communication Materials Database (HCMD), and the Health Communication Materials Network (HCMN). www.hcpartnership.org Health Communications Partnership (HCP), Media/Materials Clearinghouse (M/MC) This website is an international resource for those interested in health communication materials: pamphlets, posters, audiotapes, videos, training materials, career resources, electronic media and other media/materials designed to promote public health. Materials are available for many different topics, including TB. www.k4health.org/k4h/ Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching materials geared to the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners. HEAL's mission is to provide free digital materials of the highest quality. By using state-of-the-art Internet technologies, HEAL enables educators across the country to efficiently search and retrieve teaching materials from a variety of sources. File types found in this database are images, video clips, audio clips, animations, web pages, presentations, and portable documents. www.healcentral.org/index.jsp back to top I International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease This website provides information about international scientific studies, conferences on lung health, and publications on TB and lung disease. www.iuatld.org back to top J Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research This website provides resources for physicians and other health care professionals who provide care and treatment to patients with TB. http://www.jhsph.edu/dept/ih/globalhealthresearch/TB_Research.html back to top K KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation This website can be viewed in English or Dutch. It includes general information about TB, TB in the Netherlands and worldwide, the organization, fundraising, and publications. The site also includes recent media reports, upcoming events, and links to other TB-relevant websites. www.kncvtbc.nl/Site/Professional.aspx? back to top M Mayo Clinic This website features information on diseases and conditions, such as TB, as well as health topics in the news. www.mayoclinic.com Medscape Medscape provides subscribers with access to peer-reviewed journal articles, conference summaries, and information on professional training activities. www.medscape.com Multi-Cultural Health Communication Service This website offers multilingual health information, including information on TB. www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/ back to top N National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Trials.Gov Developed by NIH through the National Library of Medicine, this website provides patients, family members, and the general public with current information about clinical research studies. www.clinicaltrials.gov National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases This website provides information about TB, including information about vaccine development and NIAID-sponsored research. www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/tuberculosis/pages/default.aspx National Institutes of Health (NIH), Tuberculosis This NIH-supported website provides TB-related fact sheets, brochures, and research and training information. www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/tb.htm National Jewish Medical and Research Center This website provides information on the center's TB and atypical mycobacterial infection programs, basic and clinical TB research, and postgraduate courses on clinical management and control of TB. The site also includes fact sheets on TB and atypical mycobacterial infection and links to scientific journal articles on TB topics. www.nationaljewish.org/programs/directory/tb.aspx National Library of Medicine, Medline Plus This website provides information, some of which is also available in Spanish, on various aspects of TB, including information on treatment, diagnosis, statistics, special populations, and clinical trials. www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tuberculosis.html National Library of Medicine, Medline PubMed This online service of the National Library of Medicine provides access to over 11 million Medline citations dating back to the mid-1960s. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) Educational Materials Database Maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, this database contains bibliographic descriptions, abstracts, and availability information for more than 16,000 items in many formats, such as brochures/pamphlets, manuals and training guides, monographs, and reports. Materials are available in more than 34 languages. http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/locates/LocateMatl.asp National Tuberculosis Controllers Association This website provides information on and for TB control offices in the United States. www.ntca-tb.org New York City Department of Health, Tuberculosis Control Program This website contains information on services provided by the New York City Department of Health, including its chest clinics. It also provides general information on TB and information on the city's clinical policies and health protocols. www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/tb/tb.shtml New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) Through partnerships with various libraries, the NOAH website provides information on TB and other health issues in both English and Spanish. www.noah-health.org New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center This website contains information on research, testing, and training programs related to TB, HIV/AIDS, and emerging infections. Also available on this site is information on the Northeastern Regional RFLP Laboratory for DNA Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. www.wadsworth.org Northeastern Regional Training and Medical Consultation Consortium New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute The Northeastern Regional Training and Medical Consultation Consortium at the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute is one of four Regional Training and Medical Consultation Centers funded by the CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination. It provides training programs in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of TB for health professionals, health educators, HIV counselors, and community health planners. The center operates a toll-free information line to provide information on TB to health care providers and the public. www.umdnj.edu/globaltb back to top O Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) This website contains information about OSHA standards, training, and evaluation of programs that address TB in the workplace. www.osha.gov back to top P Pharm Web Virtual Library This website is a repository of pharmaceutical information, including documents on TB, for educational and research purposes. www.pharmweb.net/pwmirror/library/pharmwebvlib.html Project Inform Tuberculosis (TB) This website offers basic information on TB-such as infection, transmission, diagnosis, treatment, and multidrug-resistant strains-and TB's relationship to HIV infection and AIDS. www.projectinform.org/info/tb/index.shtml Public Health Training Network This website provides access to a calendar of satellite broadcasts, Webcasts, and meetings, as well as a catalog of distance learning courses and resources on TB and other health topics. www2a.cdc.gov/phtn/default.asp back to top R Respiratory Care This online journal, published by the American Association for Respiratory Care, disseminates information and research about respiratory disease, including TB. www.rcjournal.com Regional Training and Medical Consultation Centers (RTMCC) In 2005, the CDC's Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, funded four TB Regional Training and Medical Consultation Centers (RTMCCs). The RTMCCs are regionally assigned to cover all 50 states and the U.S. territories. The primary purpose of each RTMCC is to: Provide training and technical assistance to increase human resource development in TB programs Develop TB educational materials Provide medical consultation to TB programs and medical providers www.cdc.gov/tb/rtmcc.htm back to top S Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center is one of the four Regional Training and Medical Consultation Centers (RTMCCs) funded by the CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination. http://sntc.medicine.ufl.edu Stanford Center for Tuberculosis Research This website provides information about current TB research and encourages international collaboration between TB researchers. www.stanford.edu/group/molepi Stop TB This website includes facts on TB and information on TB working groups, resources, and events, including World TB Day. www.stoptb.org back to top T TB Education & Training Network (TB ETN) The TB Education and Training Network (TB ETN) webpage provides information about this network of TB education and training professionals and the annual conference, information on how to join the network, and a members-only section. www.cdc.gov/tb/tbetn/default.htm TBC India This website provides access to many India-specific TB resources. The website includes success stories, access to IEC resources through a searchable database, downloadable documents in multiple formats, key facts about TB in India, and a directory of TB offices in India. www.tbcindia.org TBTV.org TBTV.org is a non-profit, non-governmental organization of patients, former patients, health professionals, and concerned global citizens. TBTV.org's mission is the provision of support and solidarity for tuberculosis patients around the world, with a special concern for those with MDR-TB (Multi Drug Resistant) and TB-HIV co-infections. Its goal is to establish and develop a platform of communication that serves to connect people and foster a sense of community, while its activist arm, TB-Active, develops a grassroots campaign for patients' rights, respect, and access to proper treatment. http://www.tbtv.org Trudeau Institute This website provides general information on the Trudeau Institute, its research and educational programs, and a newsletter. http://www.trudeauinstitute.org/ Tuberculosis Net This website, sponsored by the Montefore Medical Center, is designed for health care professionals, educators, and members of the community. The website provides (1) TB instructional materials in the form of lectures, clinical cases, and downloadable slides; (2) high quality annotated X-rays, pathology and microbiology images, and online help for health care professionals with difficult questions and clinical cases; and (3) frequently asked questions and a community bulletin board for TB patients and the general public. http://tuberculosis.net back to top U University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, McKinley Health Center The center's preventive medicine website offers background information on TB, including side effects of medications to treat TB. www.mckinley.illinois.edu/ University of Iowa Virtual Hospital Sponsored by the University of Iowa, this website offers information on TB for health care providers (e.g., clinical practice guidelines for management and drug treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and patients (e.g., fact sheets). www.vh.org University of Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Control Program This website provides educational materials about TB management for nurses, physicians, and other health care professionals. www.uphs.upenn.edu/TBPA/tbcp.htm University of Utah Tuberculosis Information This Web page provides information on the pathology of TB, including patterns of infection, microscopic findings, and tuberculin skin testing. library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/MTB/MTB.html back to top W World Health Organization, Global Tuberculosis Control Report This website provides the latest epidemiologic and TB control data from across the globe. www.who.int/gtb/publications/globrep02/index.html World Health Organization (WHO), Tuberculosis This website includes information on directly observed therapy-short course, TB in prisons, and TB/HIV co-infection. It also offers profiles of high-burden countries and provides access to WHO's extensive collection of TB documents, books, articles, and other publications. www.who.int/gtb/index.htm back to top Z ZdravInform: Library of Health Reform Projects This website is an information resource developed for the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation by the Central Public Health Research Institute (CPHRI). The website provides information on health reform projects, including TB projects, via a searchable database. All of the information on the website is available in English and Russian. zdravinform.org/dev/html/eng/index.php back to top