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TUBERCULOSIS LINKS

• Prevention
• Research
• New Treatment
• Vulnerable Groups
• Case Management
• Case Detection
• Drug Resistance

PREVENTION

Related Internet Sites

• CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination Education and Training Resources Web Site
• Tuberculosis- Strategy and Operations, Monitoring and Evaluations
• Tuberculosis Prevention and Control
• International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
• The Atlanta Tuberculosis Prevention Coalition
• Francis J. Curry National tuberculosis Center
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health
• CDC- Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
• Tuberculosis Prevention for HIV Infected Adults
• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Contact Information

IUATLD
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
68 boulevard Saint Michel
75006 Paris - FRANCE.
Tel : +33-1 44.32.03.60.; Fax : +33-1 43.29.90.87.

Atlanta TB Prevention Coalition
Emory University School of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
69 Butler Street S.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30303
(404) 616-9176; Fax (404) 616-7862

Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center
3180 Eighteenth Street, Suite 101, San Francisco, California 94110-2028
Telephone: (415) 502-4600; Fax: (415) 502-4620
Email: tbcenter@nationaltbcenter.edu

TB Prevention & Control
State Laboratory Institute
305 South Street, Jamaica Plan, MA 02130
Tel. (617) 983-6970; Fax (617) 983-6990
24hr reporting: 1-888-MASSMTB; 1-888-627-7682

OMNI BIOME,
Greenfield Medical Library,
Queens Medical Centre,
Nottingham, NG7 2UH

Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Secretariat
53, Avenue Louis-Casaï, 1216 Geneva-Cointrin, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 791 17 00; Fax: +41 22 791 17 01

Conferences

• 34th IUATLD WORLD CONFERENCE ON LUNG HEALTH 29/10/2003 to 02/11/2003. Globalisation: opportunity for lung health. Official language(s): English and French. Email : paris2003@iuatld.org
• 22nd IUATLD Eastern Region Conference 22/09/2003 to 25/09/2003. The Conference will be held in Lal Durbar Convention Center, Hotel Yak & Yeti, Kathmandu. Official language(s) : English. Important Dates : Hotel / Tour Booking : before August 31, 2003. Email : nata@antitb.wlink.com.np
• 15th Conference of the IUATLD Africa Region 17/02/2004 to 20/02/2004. The Conference will take place in El Aurassi Hotel , Alger, Algeria. Official language(s) : French, English. Important Dates : 30 May 2003: Deadline for responding to the First Announcement (Inscription Form), 30 September 2003: Deadline for responding to the Second Announcement (Abstracts, Arrival and departure dates, Hotel accommodation, Inscription fees). Email : uictmr-afro@sante.dz
• 8th Conference of the IUATLD North America Region26/02/2004 to 28/02/2004 Kitty McAndrews American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago 1440 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL 60607 USA Tel (+1 312) 243 2000 Fax (+1 312) 243 3954 email: TB@alamc.org
• 3rd Conference of the IUATLD Europe Region 23/06/2004 to 26/06/2004. Moscow, Russia. Please contact: G.B. Migliori email: gbmigliori@fsm.it

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• Preventing Active Tuberculosis in immigrants
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• "Canada Finances Tuberculosis cure for half a million People in developing countries"

RESEARCH

Related Internet Sites

• Biomedical Research
• Tuberculosis Research Centre
• Stanford Center for Tuberculosis Research
• Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research
• TB Research Materials and Vaccine Testing Contract
• Institute for Tuberculosis Research
• Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
• Action TB
• Case Western Reserve University- Tuberculosis Research Unit
• Brown University's TB/HIV Research Laboratory
• Tuberculosis- Strategy and Operations, Monitoring and Evaluation"

Contact Information

Tuberculosis Research Centre,
Mayor V. R. Ramanathan Road,
(Spur Tank Road)
Chetput, Chennai - 600 031,
INDIA
Director 91-44-2836 2525

Institute for Tuberculosis Research
(M/C 964)
College of Pharmacy, Rm 412
University of Illinois at Chicago
833 S. Wood St.
Chicago, Illinois USA 60612-7231
Tel: (312) 355-1715 or 355-1924; Fax: (312) 355-2693
Email the director: sgf@uic.edu

Relevant Tools and Materials

• "Tuberculosis Prevention and Control'
• "Researchers Find How Tuberculosis Bacterium Evades Detection By Immune System'
• "Researchers find TB is tough to defeat"

NEW TREATMENTS

Related Internet Sites

• TDR- Improving Treatment of Tuberculosis
• Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research
• Pulmonology Forum
• Doctors without Borders
• AIDSmeds.com

Contact Information

Doctors without Borders
333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10001-5004
(212) 679-6800

Relevant Tools and Materials

• "Treatment of Tuberculosis"
• "Taiwan Headlines- Use of New Tuberculosis Treatment to Expand"
• "Drugs and Medications News Update"
• "New Developments in the treatment of latent tuberculosis"
• "Tuberculosis treatment: Challenge for the new Millennium"
• "Tuberculosis Control through DOTS treatment to start in Dashoguz City"
• "New Treatments for Tuberculosis"
• "Statements Concerning Study of TB Treatments for persons infected with both HIV and TB"

VULNERABLE GROUPS

- Women and children-

Related Internet Sites

• Tuberculosis
• Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• Mehta Childcare
• UNICEF
• The Foundation of Nursing Studies- "Women, Tuberculosis and India"
• Tuberculosis- Strategy and Operations, Monitoring and Evaluation"
• Womenaid International

Contact Information

UNICEF House
3 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017

The Foundation of Nursing Studies
32 Buckingham Palace Road
London SW1W 0RE, England
Tel: 020 7233 5750; Fax: 020 7233 5751

Communicable Diseases
World Health Organization
20 avenue Appia
1211 Geneva 27 , Switzerland
Tel: +41 (22) 791 4140; Fax: +41 (22) 791 4268
Email: tuberculosis@who.int

WOMENAID International
3 Whitehall Court, London SW1A 2EL
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7839 1790; Fax: +44 (0) 20 7839 2929
E-MAIL: womenaid@womenaid.org

Relevant Tools and Materials

• "Tuberculosis"
• "Tuberculosis and Children"
• "Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in children: Increased Need for Better Methods"
• "Everyday Practice- Tuberculosis in children in India"
• "Women's Health in South East Asia"
• "Stop Tuberculosis"
  

CASE MANAGEMENT

Related Internet Sites

• Francis J. Curry National tuberculosis Center

Contact Information

Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center
3180 Eighteenth Street, Suite 101
San Francisco, California 94110-2028
Tel: (415) 502-4600; Fax: (415) 502-4620

Relevant Tools and Materials

• Recommendations for Using Smallpox Vaccine in a Pre-Event Vaccination Program
• "Tuberculosis Case Management in Indiana"
• "New Global Plan To Stop Spread of Tuberculosis"

CASE DETECTION

Relevant Tools and Materials

• "Researchers Find How Tuberculosis Bacterium Evades Detection By Immune System"
• Tuberculosis- Detection Rate

DRUG RESISTANCE

Related Internet Sites

• World Health Organization- Anti microbial Resistance Information Bank
• Center for Disease Control
• ENARE- European Network for Antimicrobial Resistance and Epidemiology
• IDLinks
• Department of Health
• DoD GEISweb
• National Institute of Health (NIAID)
• Australian Group on Antimicrobial Resistance
• Europa

General Information

• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Canadian Animal Health Institute
• United States Department of Health and Human Services
• Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy and Scottish Action Plan
• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Antimicrobial Resistance Workshops

Contact Information

World Health Organization
Avenue Appia 20
1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland
Tel: (+ 41 22) 791 21 11; Fax: (+ 41 22) 791 3111
Telex: 415 416
Telegraph: UNISANTE GENEVA

Center for Disease Control
ncehinfo@cdc.gov.

Chief Medical Officer
The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall, London
SW1A 2NS

NIAID- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Director
Tel: (301) 496-2263
Email: af10r@nih.gov

Contact the Canadian Animal Health Institute
160 Research Lane,
Suite 102
Guelph, Ontario
Canada
N1G 5B2
Tel : 519-763-7777; Fax : 519-763-7407
E-mail : cahi@cahi-icsa.ca

United States Department of Health and Human Services
CDC Press Office
(404) 639-3286
FDA Press Office
(301) 827-6242
NIH/NIAID Press Office
(301) 402-1663

Ipsat Therapies Oy
Sinimäentie 10B, FIN-02630 Espoo, Finland
Tel +358 9 4242 8080; Fax +358 9 4242 8070
info@ipsat-ther.com

Conferences

• Meeting for Public Comment on the Antimicrobial Resistance Interagency Task Force -- June 25th 2003, CDC, Hyatt Regency Bethesda
• Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance June 23-25th 2003, Bethesda, MD, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases

Relevant Tools and Materials

• Anti microbial Resistance Fact sheet
• WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Anti Microbial Resistance
• Anti microbial Resistance: Non-human Use of Anti microbials
• Call to Action: A Massive Effort to Provide Proper Treatment
• Annual Report on A Public Health Action Plan To Combat Antimicrobial Resistance
• DoD-GEIS and Focus Technologies Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Project
• WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance
• Drug Resistance in Malaria
• Antimicrobial Resistance: Issues and Options
• AIDS Weekly Plus
• Prevention and Management of Antimicrobial Resistance in the Community: Do No Harm

Specified Drug Resistance to Tuberculosis

• DOTS- Plus for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
• "Tuberculosis: Antibiotic Resistance and Modern Drug Treatments"
• "Population- Based Survey for Drug Resistance of Tuberculosis-Mexico 997"
• "Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis"
• "Molecular Determinants of Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis"
• "Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis"
• "Multi Drug Resistance n Tuberculosis and in the Use of PCR for Defining Molecular Markers of Resistance"
• "Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Model"
• "Antibiotic Resistant Organisms in Respiratory Disease"

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