Items tagged with Treatment
Interventions for Tuberculosis Control and Elimination (document)
This guide addresses interventions employed against tuberculosis including: treatment, prophylaxis, BCG vaccination and preventive chemotherapy and the role of each one is weighed in current practice.
Guide for the Procurement of Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs (document)
This guide, intended for national TB programmes, national drug programmes or central medical stores and their partners, deals with how to improve supplies of essential drugs in low- and middle-income countries.
Guideline for the Clinical Management of TB and HIV Co-infection in Ghana (document)
This manual is a pocket guide and a simple reference tool available to all care providers at all levels of health care provision for easy management of people living with HIV (PLWHIV) and TB patients presenting to the facility for care. It provides easy to follow steps and algorithms for medical specialists, medical officers, clinical residents, medical students nurses and pharmacists It aims to standardize care and to ensure that proper and adequate care is provided to the patient presenting with either condition.
Guidelines on management of Leprosy and Tuberculosis in Kenya (document)
This guidelines document aims to address challenges experienced in health services due to the tuberculosis and HIV epidemic in the face of the socio- economic environment. The policy identifies areas for increased support such as: human resource capacity strengthening in order to coordinate effective control activities, decentralisation of control services to the community level, increased collaboration between TB and HIV control programs for delivery of integrated TB/HIV services, sustained public health education campaigns to promote early care seeking and adherence to treatment at community level, promotion of private–public partnerships to increase the number of non - public providers integrated into the TB service provider network and health care worker training and support for better TB case management by health care providers.
Guidance on Ethics of Tuberculosis Prevention, Care and Control (document)
This guidance document was undertaken to analyze selected priority ethical issues in TB and to support the development of WHO guidance in order to help governments and their national TB programmes, TB service providers, policy-makers and civil society and other stakeholders implement TB prevention, care and control efforts in an ethical manner. Key values discussed include: social justice/equity, solidarity, common good, autonomy, reciprocity, effectiveness, participation, transparency and accountability.
Managing TB Medicines at the Primary Level (document)
This guide presents a step-by-step algorithm 'roadmap' users should be able to use to identify key weaknesses in their system and mechanisms to overcome weaknesses in selection, procurement, distribution, timely use, and management support of TB medicines. It reviews the key areas of pharmaceutical management for tuberculosis.
Managing Pharmaceuticals and Commodities: A Guide for National Tuberculosis Programs (document)
This guide aims to assist in strengthening National Tuberculosis Program's (NTP) effectiveness by providing information on how good pharmaceutical management can contribute to the outcomes of the TB program. It is made for those who have varying degrees of background in tuberculosis control such as NTP leadership, other Ministry of Health (MOH) units with which the NTP works closely in procuring and financing tuberculosis (TB) medicines, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and donors involved in TB control.
Pharmaceutical Management for Tuberculosis (PMTB) Assessment Manual (document)
This evaluation manual presents indicator-based guidelines for evaluating pharmaceutical management systems as well as activities specifically designed for the needs of a national TB program (NTP) and its partners. The assessment approach and corresponding indicators included in the manual were made for conducting stand-alone studies or for integration into on-going program reviews by the NTP in a host country.
A Guide for Tuberculosis Treatment Supporters (document)
This is a simple guide for those who provide support for patients presenting with TB. Through simple language and images, the following topics are discussed: what is TB, how it is spread, what are symptoms, how to treat it and importance of adherence, prevention, role and tasks for TB Treatment Supporters, how to use TB treatment cards, and adverse side effects.
An Expanded DOTS Framework for TB (document)
This guide addresses several challenges in implementing the WHO Stop TB Strategy. The expanded framework expresses the need for equal emphasis on the technical, managerial, social and political dimensions of DOTS. It reinforces the five essential elements of the DOTS strategy and addresses HIV-related and drug-resistant forms of TB.
Page 80 of 105 · Total posts: 0
←First 79 80 81 Last→