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Free TB Clinical Information Leaflets for first 10 respondees
Posted in: Respiratory nurses | Specialist nursing areas
15-Mar-2011 3:39 pm
[b]TB Alert’s Clinical Information Leaflets[/b]
Special offer: first ten to respond to helen.clegg@tbalert.org will receive a free set of English leaflets
We thought you might be interested in TB Alert’s clinical information leaflets. The leaflets were developed in partnership with the North West London TB Network, to provide a useful overview of key issues in TB. You can find out more and see sample pages online [url]http://www.tbalert.org/resources/clinical.php[/url]:.
There are nine titles available, which are designed to reinforce the advice and support given to TB patients by TB nurses and other health care specialists.
1. Tuberculosis: your questions answered
2. Tuberculosis and the BCG vaccination
3. Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis - sponsored by Lilly UK
4. TB and its diagnosis
5. Tuberculosis treatment
6. Rifater, Ethambutol, Pyrazinamide & Rifinah
7. Contact tracing and screening for tuberculosis
8. Latent tuberculosis infections treatment
9. An important test for people who have tuberculosis - TB and HIV
The leaflets also support Action 5b of the TB Action Plan (2004) to ‘...provide materials about TB and its treatment in locally appropriate languages’. The following languages are available:
• English
• Gujarati
• Somali
• Tamil
• Urdu
• Albanian
• Bengali
• Simplified Chinese
• Farsi
• French
• Greek
• Italian
• Pashto
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Punjabi
• Romanian
• Sorani
• Spanish
• Turkish
If you have would like to find out about placing an order, or if you have any questions or feedback please call Paul Dawson at TB Alert on: 01273 234029.
Best wishes,
Helen Clegg
TB Alert


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