TB In Specific Populations

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Cultural Diversity

• Clinical Cultural Competence: What can I do to Promote Culturally Appropriate Patient Care?
  The University of Washington Medial Center/School of Nursing provides you with continuing nursing education.
• TB & Cultural Competency
  Includes a self-study guide and self-assessment and newsletters from the New Jersey Medical School Global TuberculosisInstitute.
  
• Disparities in HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB
  Defining health disparities.
• EthnoMed
  Provides you with details about cultural beliefs, medical issues, and other related issues relevant to the health care of recent immigrants.
• Nuestra Casa
  A tool to promote awareness to many groups about TB.
• Promoting Cultural Sensitivity: A Practical Guide for Tuberculosis Programs
  This series of five guides helps TB program staff provide culturally competent TB care.
• School's Out Washington
  A film chronicling the lives of refugee youth in Washington State.
• Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center
  The center supports the education and training missions of TB programs within their region. They also provide a source of expert medical consultation to those caring for TB patients. They also have several different country specific guides. These guides include information on TB and HIV/AIDS, general practices, and cultural courtesies for each country. Within these guides you will find background information, epidemiology, common misperceptions and beliefs.
  
• TB in the African-American Community
  Resources to prevent, control, and eliminate TB.

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HIV

• Managing Drug Interactions in the Treatment of HIV-Related TB
  Provides advice for issues that occur when treating HIV and TB together.
• Reported HIV Status of Tuberculosis Patients in the U.S. - Provides data  from 1993-2005.
  

Translated Materials

• EurasiaHealth TB
  TB materials and Web sites written specifically for the public and/or patients and their families.
• Healthy Roads Media
  Includes TB pamphlets in several different languages.
• Minnesota Department of Health
  TB materials in up to 14 different languages.
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
  Informational brochure "Tuberculosis: Getting Healthy and Staying Healthy", available in English and Spanish.
• NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
  A variety of health topics including TB in several different languages.

Tribes

• 2010-2011 Centennial Accord Plan Update (410KB)
  This document provides TB rates for American Indian tribes (refer to page 12-13 of document).
• Have you Noticed Change...(220KB)
  Flyer that brings attention to TB in tribes and includes helpful contacts.
• Governors Office of Indian Affairs
  Provides details related to Indian affairs.
• Northwest Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB)
  The NPAIHB includes forty-three federally recognized tribes in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
• Tuberculosis in American Indian Populations (442KB)
  Brochure that provides TB facts to tribes and includes helpful contacts.

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