See also: Tuberculosis and HIV for information about the TB and HIV together
Resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
For the General Public and Employers:
- Tuberculosis – General Information (fact sheet)
- Questions and Answers About TB (booklet)
- The Difference Between Latent TB Infection and TB Disease (fact sheet)
- Get the Facts About TB Disease (pamphlet)
- What You Need to Know about TB Infection (pamphlet)
- Tuberculosis Information for Employers in Non-Healthcare Settings (Fact sheet)
For Healthcare Providers:
- TB 101 for Healthcare Workers
- Core Curriculum on Tuberculosis
- Self-Study Modules on Tuberculosis
- TB Guidelines
- State TB Control Offices
Data and Statistics:
- Data and Statistics Overview
- Trends in Tuberculosis (fact sheet)
- Reported Tuberculosis in the United States (report)
- Tuberculosis in the United States (slide set)
Selected Recent Articles on Tuberculosis
- Global Fund Raises $12.9B to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. (September 2016, Poz); related coverage from Science Speaks Blog
- U.S. Pledges Up to $4.3B to the Global Fund Through 2019. (September 2016, Poz)
- Updated TB clinical practice guidelines advocate early therapy, case management. (August 2016, Healio)
- Daily TB Treatment Better Than Intermittent. (July 2016, MedPage Today)
- Community systems strengthening needed to end HIV, TB. (July 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- Disproportionate burden of HIV, hepatitis, TB among prisoners driven by IDUs, insufficient care. (July 2016, Healio)
- Shortened regimen for MDR-TB shows good results for children. (July 2016, AIDSmap)
- TB preconference highlights response stymied by neglect of patient needs and research funding deficits. (July 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- TB vaccine development in the 21st century takes new approaches. (July 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- TB2016 demands a global commitment to end TB. (July 2016, AIDSmap)
- The War on Drugs Fuels the Spread of HIV, Hepatitis C and Tuberculosis. (July 2016, Poz)
- Multi-country survey sheds light on drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment needs. (July 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- Case Western researchers receive grant to examine HIV, TB relationship. (July 2016, Healio)
- “Test and treat” is the ideal – but in TB and other illnesses, “guess and treat” is the more common reality. (June 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- Senate agrees on global health funding, small boost for TB. (June 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- TB gets time and targets, as leaders weigh impacts of No. 1 killer. (June 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- Wanted: Continued development of TB diagnostics to reduce antimicrobial resistance. (June 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- Addressing development of tuberculosis diagnostics and drugs is critical to global antimicrobial resistance response, review finds. (May 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- Health workers face tuberculosis risks up to three times those of general population, while infection control, worker protections lag. (April 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- As U.S. sees first rise in TB cases since early ’90s, World TB Day offers forum to count costs of missed opportunities. (March 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- Access to medicine, diagnostics and human rights… We’re reading how to fight TB. (March 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- Battling TB and other outbreaks “staff, stuff, space, and systems” still lacking. (March 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- Scientists find way to identify people at risk for active tuberculosis disease. (March 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- World TB Day 2016: CDC’s Shannon Hader on leadership against an epidemic. (March 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- Urine-based TB test lowers mortality. (March 2016, Healio)
- With TB now No. 1 global infectious disease killer, USAID justifies cuts to global TB funding. (March 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- Acceptability of large-scale household-based TB screening: HPTN 071 (PopART) (CROI abstract); related coverage by AIDSmap and Healio.
- Direct transmission seems to drive XDR TB (MedPage Today); related coverage by AIDSmap and Healio.
- Empirical TB treatment comes up short again. (February 2016, AIDSmap); related coverage from Healio; abstract from 2016 Retrovirus Conference.
- White House slashes TB funding less than two months after launching National Plan to Combat MDR-TB. (February 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- TB: With a plan on the table, an outbreak at home, U.S. Senators, UN Envoy urge White House to fund tuberculosis programs. (January 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- MDR-TB treatment: Six drugs better than five. (January 2016, AIDSmap)
- USAID announces new partnerships to combat MDR-TB at White House plan launch. (January 2016, TheBodyPro)
- MDR-TB national action plan raises questions on targets and funding. (January 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
- LAM point-of-care TB testing reduces mortality in people with HIV/TB co-infection in hospital. (January 2016, AIDSmap)
- One in eight children with confirmed TB have drug-resistant TB in Cape Town. (January 2016, AIDSmap)
- Global Health 2015: Top 10 stories in HIV, TB and more. (December 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
- Community care workers boost TB case finding among hard-to-reach adults. (December 2015, AIDSmap)
- White House releases plan to combat MDR-TB at home and around the world. (December 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
- Obama Administration Releases National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis. (December 2015, U.S. White House)
- The National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis. (December 2015, U.S. White House)
- Most important part of tuberculosis treatment is social support, patients say. (December 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
- Global HIV, tuberculosis programs flat funded in FY 2016 spending bill, yet again. (December 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
- Death during MDR-TB treatment more likely in people with HIV and underweight or most drug-resistant patients. (December 2015, AIDSmap)
- 9-month MDR-TB regimen cures 82% in African study. (December 2015, AIDSmap)
- Lancet TB series on local data, active case-finding, preventive treatment, community input and more. (October 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
- Is plan for drug-resistant TB delayed amid cost concerns, while cost of delay goes unnoticed? (October 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
- Newest MDR-TB drug prices could fall by up to 95% through generic production. (October 2015, AIDSmap)
- TB death rate four times higher in Eastern Europe due to lack of HIV treatment after TB diagnosis. (October 2015, AIDSmap)
- TB may be treatable with common glaucoma medication. (July 2015, Medical News Today)
- Ambitious new U.S. plan may put hundreds of thousands on MDR-TB treatment. (July 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
- Research reveals new insights into a key antibiotic target in the fight against TB. (June 2015, Medical News Today)
- Multidrug-resistant TB appears less transmissible in households than drug-susceptible TB. (June 2015, Medical News Today)
- Fighting tuberculosis using the body’s natural anti-microbial processes. (June 2015, Medical News Today)
- Spinal tuberculosis may be treated surgically or with drugs. (June 2015, Healio)
- Trial of all-oral XDR-TB treatment begins. (May 2015, Healio)
- First all-oral XDR-TB drug regimen trial launches in South Africa. (May 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
- High-dose rifampicin may shorten time to TB clearance. (April 2015, AIDSmap)
- T-cell biomarkers distinguish active, latent M. tuberculosis infection. (April 2015, Healio)
- To end TB, treat the missing millions. (March 2015, Medical News Today)
- PaMZ shows promise to shorten TB therapy. (March 2015, Healio)
- TB incidence in US declines 2.2%. (March 2015, Healio)
- Decline in U.S. Tuberculosis Rates Slows: CDC. (March 2015, WebMD.
- TB’s ability to evade immune system becomes clearer in large study. (March 2015, Medical News Today)
- Clustered transmission responsible for majority of XDR-TB cases. (February 2015, Healio)
- Drug-resistant TB may be treatable with new small molecule drug. (February 2015, Medical News Today)
- High-dose rifampin reduced time to TB culture conversion. (February 2015, Healio)
- TB drug candidate starts Phase 1 trial – first in six years. (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
- PET scans can help select best TB drugs for trials. (December 2014, Medical News Today)
- Increased expenditure on social security has benefits for TB control in the EU. (October 2014, AIDSmap)
- Bedaquiline as part of tailored therapy for MDR- and XDR-TB achieves impressive culture conversion rates. (October 2014, AIDSmap)
- WHO report: TB is more widespread than previously estimated. (October 2014, Medical News Today)
- TB strain identification via ‘genetic barcode.’ (September 2014, Medical News Today)
- Use of drug susceptibility testing to select therapy improves treatment outcomes inpatients with MDR- and XDR-TB. (August 2014, AIDSmap)
- Global burden of HIV, malaria, and TB has decreased since ‘the Millennium Declaration.’ (July 2014, Medical News Today)
- GeneXpert with clinic-based care reduced time to treatment for MDR TB patients in Khayelitsha, South Africa. (July 2014, Science Speaks Blog)
- PaMZ TB drug regimen: Cheaper, simpler, safer, and with effectiveness “significantly greater” than standard regimen, researchers say. (July 2014, Science Speaks Blog)
- Investigational TB vaccine to be tested. (March 2014, Healio)
- Rifampicin dose can be increased safely in TB treatment, may shorten duration. (November 2013, AIDSmap)
- Another negative result in the quest for a shorter TB treatment course. (November 2013, AIDSmap)
- Eastern Europe facing quadruple epidemic while governments do nothing, warns UN Special Envoy. (October 2013, AIDSmap)
- UK patients with MDR-TB have good outcomes but a quarter not receiving the recommended duration of therapy. (October 2013, AIDSmap)