Patients

Links to TB Educational Materials
Many of these files require the free Adobe Acrobat Reader .

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VDH Educational Materials

Patient Information Brochures - 7 Topics in 15 Languages Available

• View Brochures by Language
• View Brochures by Title
• Mulitmedia and Audio Versions of 7 Topics in 9 Languages

Tuberculosis Disease Fact Sheet

• Web page
• PDF document

Tuberculosis Infection Fact Sheet

• Web page
• PDF document

Tuberculosis Power Point Slide Sets - Fundamentals of Tuberculosis for:

• Legislators
• Media
• General Public

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Other Educational Materials

American Lung Association of San Diego

• http://www.lungsandiego.org/lung/adults_tuberculosis.asp
• "After the Test" -- English | Farsi

Australian Public Health Division, Government of Victoria, Australia

• TB Materials available in Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, English, Filippino, Russian, Somali, and, Turkish
• http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ideas/diseases/language.htm
  Please scroll this above web page and look for materials on Tuberculosis

British Lung Association

• The following materials were developed by the British Lung Association, but DTC became aware of them through the Health and Development Initiative-India.
• "Facts About Tuberculosis" - Hindi (English Translation) [pdf files]

California TB Controller's Association

• "TB Disease: Class 2" -- Farsi (English Translation) [pdf files]
• "TB Disease: Class 3 and 5" -- Farsi (English Translation) [pdf files]

Canadian Lung Association

• http://www.lung.ca/tb/notenglish/
• "Information About Tuberculosis" -- Brochure is available in pdf file in the following languages:
  Albanian, Arabic, Chinese - Simplified; Chinese - Traditional; Czech; English; French; German; Hungarian; Italian; Korean; Polish; Portuguese; Punjabi; Romanian; Russian; Serbo-Croatian; Somalian; Spanish; Turkish; and, Vietnamese

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• "Question and Answers About TB" (.pdf file) [English Version]
• Pamphlets - http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/pubs/pamphlets.htm
  Most of the pamphlets are available in English and Spanish
  

City of Manchester, New Hampshire

• http://www.manchesternh.gov/CityGov/HLT/Community/TB.html
• Materials are animated, and can only be accessed on line
• Languages available are Arabic, Bosnian, English, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese

Ethnomed -- This web site provides cultural information as well as educational materials

• Brochures - http://www.ethnomed.org/ethnomed/patient_ed/index.html
• TB brochures in pdf files include the following:
  "Pills to Prevent TB for you and your Family!"
  Brochure is available in the following languages: Cambodian, Chinese, English, Korean, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Oromiffa, Somali, and Spanish
  
  "Tuberculosis: Get the Facts" [Pdf files]
  CDC pamphlet available in English, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese
  
  "Medication for Treatment of Tuberculosis" [Pdf files]
  Available in Amharic, Cambodian, Somali, Tigrinya, and Vietnamese
  
  "The Tuberculosis Skin Test" [Pdf files]
  Available in Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese

Florida Department of Health

• Click http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Disease_ctrl/tb/Educational-Materials/edmat.html to visit the patient education page for the materials order form; video and brochures are available
• Brochures available for order are:
  TB and You (Every Reader Style) -- English and Spanish
  What You Should Know (Every Reader Style) -- English, Spanish and Hatian-Creole
  Get the Facts About TB - and Breathe Easier (Real Style) -- English and Spanish

Massachusetts Department of Health

• INH Fact Sheet -- English | Arabic [pdf files]

Minnesota Department of Health

• http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/tb/brochures.html
• The materials available for download (free) are in pdf formats, and they are:
  "The TB Skin Test (Mantoux)" -- Available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English, Hmong, Khmer (Cambodian), Laotian, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, and Vietnamese
  
  "Treatment for Latent TB Infection" -- Available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English, Hmong, Khmer (Cambodian), Laotian, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, and Vietnamese
  
  "Instructions for Collecting Sputum for TB -- Available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English, Hmong, Khmer (Cambodian), Laotian, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, and Vietnamese
  
  "Tuberculosis Disease -- Available in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English, Hmong, Khmer (Cambodian), Laotian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, and Vietnamese
  
  "Medicine for Tuberculosis Disease -- Available in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English, Hmong, Khmer (Cambodian), Laotian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, and Vietnamese

NIH National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The following brochures are pdf files and can be downloaded using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. These materials have lots of pictures and might be useful with patients who learn better with visual cues.

• http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/tb.htm
• Learn About Tuberculosis (English) | Learn About Tuberculosis (Spanish)
• Learn About Tuberculosis Infection (English) | Learn About Tuberculosis Infection (Spanish)

New Mexico Refugee and Immigrant Health Program

• TB Foreign Language Materials - http://www.healthlinknm.org/refugee/resources/foreign/tb.htm
• This web site provides a listing of a large number of TB materials available through various organizations; please visit this web site for this list and downloads

Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library; University of Utah

• http://library.med.utah.edu/24languages/
• The following TB materials are available:
  "Pills to Prevent TB" [pdf files] -- Cambodian and English | Laotian and English
  "TB: Get the Facts" [pdf files] -- Korean (Download English from CDC web page)

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