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Les trucs antituberculose: conseils sur la maladie et son traitement
July 2008

Information about the MDR-TB initiative
June 2008
Information on the initiative by the Global Drug Facility, UNITAID, WHO and FIND to accelerate MDR-TB control

Independent External Evaluation of the Stop TB Partnership
April 2008
Independent external evaluation of the Stop TB Partnership conducted by McKinsey & Company
For easier downloading the evaluation has been split into the following three parts:

• Main report, Appendix A (Interviewees) and Exhibits
• Appendix B (Country visit Summary) and C (Details of Countries)
• Appendix D (TB Landscape)

La tuberculosis: información y consejos para vencer la enfermedad
February 2008

Advocacy, communication and social mobilization for TB control: a guide to developing knowledge, attitude and practice surveys
January 2008
This guide has been developed to help systematize countries’ approaches to collecting and using data from KAP surveys for planning, refining and evaluating ACSM work.

Engaging Stakeholders For Retooling TB Control
2008

Advocacy, communication and social mobilization: a handbook for country programmes
December 2007
This handbook is a guide to support the design and implementation of ACSM activities and is primarily intended for staff that plan, organize and supervise TB control activities at the national level.

TB tips: advice for people with tuberculosis
November 2007
This publication is a short booklet full of practical advice, suggestions, guidance and information in an easy to read format for TB patients.

Overcoming Tuberculosis: A Handbook for Patients
November 2007
This handbook aims to help people with TB or multidrug-resistant TB understand what TB is and how they can get the disease, how it is diagnosed, and how it is treated and cured.

The Global MDR-TB & XDR-TB Response Plan 2007-2008
October 2007
[WHO/HTM/STB/2007.387]

Stop TB Partnership 2006 Annual Report
September 2007

Global Tuberculosis Control Report
This is the 11th WHO annual report on global TB control
March 2007
[WHO/HTM/TB/2007.376]

HIV testing for life...
HIV testing for all tuberculosis patients
An entry point for tuberculosis patients to access HIV prevention and care.
February 2007

Networking for Policy Change: TB/HIV Advocacy Training Manual
2007
This document is adapted from Networking for Policy Change: An Advocacy Training Manual, a resource for facilitators of family planning and reproductive health advocacy issues worldwide. The training manual includes information on networking, communications, and policy environments; exercises on conceptualizing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating advocacy campaigns; and relevant materials for advocates. Facilitators can use the training techniques employed in the manual in various contexts. However, this manual is specifically adapted for trainings when TB/HIV is the focus of advocacy.

Networking for Policy Change: TB/HIV Participant’s Guide
2007
This participant’s guide is to be used in conjunction with "Networking for Policy Change: TB/HIV Advocacy Training Manual." This publication for TB/HIV advocacy is particularly designed for country and local level advocacy to accelerate the implementation of collaborative TB/HIV activities. The target audience includes individuals and institutions that work either on TB and HIV/AIDS, and advocates and those who intend to advocate for TB/HIV issues, mainly at national and local levels. "Networking for Policy Change: TB/HIV Advocacy Training Manual" and "Networking for Policy Change: TB/HIV Participant’s Guide" can be accessed at both the Constella Futures and World Health Organization’s websites.

New Technologies for TB Control: A Framework for their Adoption, Introduction and Implementation
2007

Reichman & Herschfield's Tuberculosis A Comprehensive International Approach
2-Volume Set, Third Edition, edited by Mario C. Raviglione
Tuberculosis merges state-of-the-art research developments with principles of programmatic TB management.
2006

Engaging all health care providers in TB control
Guidance on implementingg Public-Private mix approaches
2006
[WHO/HTM/TB/2006.360]

Trends in International Funding for TB Control
October 2006

Stop TB Partnership 2005 Annual Report
September 2006
[WHO/HTM/STB/2006.36]

Advocacy, communication and social mobilization to fight TB:
June 2006
[WHO/HTM/STB/2006.37]
A ten-year framework for action

Health and Development Networks (HDNet) has published a comprehensive report on the Stop TB e-forum
April 2006

The Stop TB Strategy
March 2006
[WHO/HTM/TB/2006.368]
One-pagers in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish

Patients charter for tuberculosis care
March 2006

International standards for tuberculosis care
March 2006

Global Tuberculosis Control Report
This is the 10th WHO annual report on global TB control
March 2006
[WHO/HTM/TB/2006.362]

Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis
March 2006
[WHO/HTM/TB/2006.361]

The Global Plan To Stop TB, 2006-2015
January 2006
[WHO/HTM/STB/2006.35]

Information Pack on The Global Plan To Stop TB, 2006-2015
January 2006

Management of collaborative TB/HIV activities:
Training for managers at the national and subnational levels
December 2005
[WHO/HTM/TB/2005.359a,b,c], [WHO/HIV/2005.10a,b,c]

Sustaining the Gains
National Self-Sufficiency for TB Drug Access
A Global Drug Facility Strategy
October 2005
[WHO/HTM/STB/2006.34]

Stop TB Partnership - Annual Report 2004 - Introductory page
Our Annual Report 2004 looks at the Stop TB Partnership's major achievements in core areas of work, including governance, advocacy and communication, partnership building, access to lifesaving TB drug treatments and resource mobilization.
May 2005
[WHO/HTM/STB/2005.33]

4 Million Treatments in 4 Years
The Global TB Drug Facility Achievements Report
March 2005
[WHO/HTM/STB/2005.32]

Global Tuberculosis Control - surveillance, planning, financing
This is the 9th WHO annual report on global TB control
March 2005
[WHO/HTM/TB/2005]

Tuberculosis Services in Partnership
The case in Egypt
2004
[WHO-EM/TUB/243/E]

Cost and cost-effectiveness of Public-Private mix DOTS
Evidence from two pilot projects in India
2004
[WHO/HTM/TB/2004.337]

Progress Report on the Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis
2004
[WHO/HTM/STB/2004.29]

Fight AIDS, fight TB, fight now: TB/HIV information pack
Produced by UNAIDS / Stop TB Partnership
July 2004

Keeping the Pledge to Stop TB
March 2004
[WHO/HTM/STB/2005.31A]

Report on the Second Stop TB Partners' Forum
March 2004
[WHO/HTM/STB/2005.31B]

Background document prepared for the meeting of the second ad hoc Committee on the TB epidemic
March 2004
[WHO/HTM/STB/2004.27]

Report on the meeting of the second ad hoc Committee on the TB epidemic
Recommendations to Stop TB partners
March 2004
[WHO/HTM/STB/2004.28]

Independent External Evaluation of the Global Stop TB Partnership - Report
View the Executive Summary
January 2004

Independent External Evaluation of the Global Stop TB Partnership - Annex
Annex
January 2004

Public-Private Mix for DOTS
Practical tools to help implementation
2003
[WHO/CDS/TB/2003.325]

Guidelines for workplace TB control activities
The contribution of workplace TB control activities to TB control in the community
2003
[WHO/CDS/TB/2003.323]

The Power of Partnerships
November 2003
[WHO/HTM/STB/2003.24]

A Pocket Guide to Building Partnerships
October 2003
[WHO/HTM/STB/2003.25]

World TB Day 2003 Highlights Report
The purpose of this report is to share the results of your hard work in organizing advocacy and education campaigns for World TB Day 2003.
October 2003
[WHO/HTM/STB/2002.26]

World TB Day 2002 Highlights Report
The purpose of this report is to share the results of your hard work in organizing advocacy and education campaigns for World TB Day 2002 – mobilizing people and resources,,building partnerships and, in many cases,maintaining year-long advocacy efforts.Whether you are a health professional,a community care worker,a donor, a politician,a communications officer,a volunteer,an academic or a staff member of an organization working to stop TB,you should read these highlights from around the world and feel proud. And read them to get new ideas for 2003!
December 2002
[WHO/CDS/STB/2002.20]

Improving TB Drug Management - Accelerating DOTS Expansion
The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) is increasing in many parts of the world, and partner organizations of Stop TB recognize the significant role drug management plays in ensuring that safe, effective, quality drugs are available when and where patients need them. The main objective of the survey discussed in this paper was to identify specific problems in connection with drug management and availability of drugs for treating tuberculosis (TB) at the central and peripheral levels in two developing countries, Republic of Congo and India (the state of Uttar Pradesh).
October 2002
[WHO/CDS/STB/2002.19]

Frequently asked questions about the 4 drug fixed-dose combination tablet recommended by WHO
The majority of tuberculosis patients worldwide are still treated with single drugs, or with 2-drug fixed-dose combinations (FDCs). To improve tuberculosis treatment, 2- and 3-drug FDCs were recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of the DOTS strategy. Recently, however, a 4-drug FDC containing 150 mg rifampicin, 75 mg isoniazid, 400 mg pyrazinamide, and 275 mg ethambutol was added to the WHO Model List of Essential Drugs, which made possible an intensive-phase treatment for tuberculosis based fully on an FDC. This document is intended to answer frequently asked questions about the recently introduced 4-drug FDC, but many of the issues are also relevant to the 2- and 3-drug FDCs.
October 2002
[WHO/CDS/STB/2002.18]

Stop TB Annual Report 2001
Since 1993 when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) to be a global health emergency, the international community has struggled to find the means to control the growing pandemic. Meanwhile, TB has continued to exact its remorseless toll, killing nearly 2 million people every year and developing into active disease in 6 million others. At the same time, the rising incidence of both multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and of TB/HIV coinfection posed serious new challenges to the response effort.
August 2002
[WHO/CDS/STB/2002.17]

Global DOTS Expansion Plan
Progress in TB control in high-burden countries, 2001.
2001
[WHO/CDS/STB/2001.11]

"Highlights: First Stop TB Partners' Forum" Report
Full report from the Stop TB Partners' Forum held in Washington, DC, USA in October 2001.
December 2001
[WHO/CDS/STB/2001.14b]

Global Plan to Stop TB
A comprehensive plan to tackle TB, including opportunities, actions, and investments needed.
October 2001
[WHO/CDS/STB/2001.16]

Endorsed Washington Commitment
English / French / Spanish / Chinese / Russian / Arabic
The commitment to further operationalize the Amsterdam Declaration to Stop TB from the Partners' Forum.
October 2001
[WHO/CDS/STB/2001.14a]

5050: Towards a TB-Free Future
Outlining the progress since the Amsterdam Declaration, and the steps needed to reach global targets for TB control by 2005.
October 2001
[WHO/CDS/STB/2001.13]

Guidelines for Social Mobilization: World TB Day 2001 Highlights
The theme for World TB Day 2001—DOTS: TB cure for all—suggests that we can eliminate tuberculosis from this planet. A cure for all from tuberculosis (TB) is part of the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States to allow access to health services for all.
October 2001
[WHO/CDS/STB/2001.13]

Stop TB Annual Report 2000
The world has taken a fresh look at tuberculosis in the year 2000, and put TB in the spotlight as a social, political, and economic issue rather than just a health problem.
June 2001
[WHO/CDS/STB/2001.12]

Global TB Drug Facility Prospectus
A global mechanism to ensure universal, uninterrupted access to quality TB drugs for DOTS implementation.
March 2001
[WHO/CDS/STB/2001.10a]

Global TB Drug Facility Brochure
A summary of the Global TB Drug Facility Prospectus.
March 2001
[WHO/CDS/STB/2001.10b]

Guidelines for Social Mobilization: A Human Rights Approach to TB
This guide examines the human rights dimensions of issues affecting people’s vulnerability to contracting TB and their access to TB cure.
February 2001
[WHO/CDS/STB/2001.9]

"Forging new partnerships to Stop TB"
Highlights of activities in countries which took place around World TB Day 2000.
December 2000
[WHO/CDS/STB/2000.8]

Video Series - 5 (VHS)
DOTS Workers: Frontline heroes to Stop TB
TB and Sustainable Development
TB/HIV: The dual epidemic
Shanta: Model community mobilizer
DOTS and public-private partnerships
December 2000
[CDS/STB/VIDEO/2000.1-5]

Report from the Ministerial Conference on TB & Sustainable Development, Amsterdam
High-ranking participants at the Ministerial Conference in Amsterdam bore testimony to their collective commitment to take action—and to take it NOW.
March 2000
[WHO/CDS/STB/2000.6]

Amsterdam Declaration from the Ministerial Conference on TB & Sustainable Development
A call for accelerated action against tuberculosis.
March 2000
[WHO/CDS/STB/2000.6]

The Economic Impacts of TB
The economic impact of tuberculosis come from the size of the problem and from the fact that in developing countries the majority of those affected are in the economically active segment of the population.
March 2000
[WHO/CDS/STB/2000.5]

TB & Sustainable Development 2000 Report
The following pages are testimony to the inextricable relationship between TB and sustainable development. Where TB flourishes, social and economic development progress is compromised, and, where the development of health and education systems, national economies and national security are weak or failing, TB thrives.
March 2000
[WHO/CDS/STB/2000.4]

Guidelines for Social Mobilization: Planning World TB Day - English
Planning a successful World TB Day is an important starting point for the series of "Guidelines for Social Mobilization" as it embraces both global and country level action.
Guidelines for Social Mobilization: Planning World TB Day - French
Guide de la mobilisation sociale: Planification de la Journée mondiale de la Tuberculose.
January 2000
[WHO/CDS/STB/2000.1]