Ukraine

Resources, guidelines, and reports

• Uniting for Ukraine: Tuberculosis Information and Resources
  
• International Course on the Programmatic and Clinical Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Ukrainian.
  
• War-Torn Ukraine Is Also an HIV and Tuberculosis Hot Spot
  
• Transcontinental spread and evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis W148 European/Russian clade toward extensively drug resistant tuberculosis
  
• Uniting for Ukraine: Information for TB Programs
  
• Cultural Quick Reference Guide: Ukraine
  
• WHO issues Information Note on ensuring continuity of essential TB services for people with or at risk of the disease in Ukraine and refugee-hosting countries​
  
• Testing for tuberculosis infection and screening for tuberculosis disease among refugees arriving in European countries from Ukraine
  
• Health systems in crisis: The Global Fund's impact in Ukraine
  
• ​EU plans to buy measles, polio vaccines for Ukraine refugees
  
• Global Fund Approves Emergency Funding to Maintain Essential HIV and TB Services in Ukraine
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News

• The war in Ukraine is an environmental catastrophe
  
• National survey on the impact of the war in Ukraine on TB diagnostics and treatment services in 2022
  
• ​Diseased Russian prisoners being sent to the front lines, Ukraine intel head says
  
• The human toll and humanitarian crisis of the Russia-Ukraine war: the first 162 days
  
• TBpeopleUkraine 2022: we are stronger than war and tuberculosis
  
• ​Ukrainian refugees entering US will undergo health and security checks
  
• Ukrainians seeking shelter in US must have TB screenings and certain vaccinations
  
• Russian Propaganda Spreading Fake News Of 'Tuberculosis Epidemic' In Ukraine's Army
  
• The war in Ukraine and potential consequences for the TB epidemic in Europe
  
• Tuberculosis patients in Ukraine at risk, some refugee groups to be tested
  
• War In Ukraine Sets Back Tuberculosis Treatment
  
• Public Health Catastrophe Looms in Ukraine, Experts Warn
  
• Russia is destroying Ukraine’s healthcare system
  
• Russia’s invasion of Ukraine poses a threat to the control of drug-resistant TB in Europe and the world
• Ukrainians Need Help to Maintain Progress Against TB

• Ukraine’s ‘Model’ TB Programme Destroyed by War, as Global TB Response Faces ‘Disastrous’ Funds Shortfall
  
• ‘There is No Safe Place in Ukraine’
  
• ​Ukraine's tuberculosis progress 'stopped in one day'
  
• Polio, TB, HIV: How the war could worsen Ukraine’s health crises
  
• Surge of HIV, tuberculosis and COVID feared amid war in Ukraine
  
• Russia's war with Ukraine is devastating for Ukraine's war on TB
  
• Dr. Fauci warns war in Ukraine could lead to the ‘devastating’ spread of tuberculosis
  
• War in Ukraine could lead to ‘devastating’ tuberculosis problem, warns Anthony Fauci
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Afghanistan

Resources, guidelines, and reports

• CULTURAL QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE: AFGHANISTAN
  
• ​Breaking the barriers: Migrants and tuberculosis
  
• ​Health profile of adult special immigrant visa holders arriving from Iraq and Afghanistan to the United States, 2009–2017: A cross-sectional analysis
  
• ​Delay in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis: a report from Afghanistan
  
• ​Epidemiology of tuberculosis among Afghan immigrants in Fars province, southern Islamic Republic of Iran
  
• The most prevalent Mycobacterium tuberculosis superfamilies among Iranian and Afghan TB cases​
  
• Incidence and Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Iran and Neighboring Countries
  
• Evaluation of national tuberculosis surveillance system in Afghanistan
  
• Implementing a successful tuberculosis programme within primary care services in a conflict area using the stop TB strategy: Afghanistan case study
  
• Prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among health workers in Afghanistan: A cross-sectional study
  
• Treatment outcome of tuberculosis treatment regimens in Kandahar, Afghanistan​
  
  

​​News

• ​Drug resistant tuberculosis in Afghanistan: We must continue to put people at the centre of treatment
  
  
  

Vietnam

Resources, guidelines, and reports

• Community Health Centers Serving Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders – September 2022
  
• ​Tuberculosis Trends, Vietnam
  
• Fear and social isolation as consequences of tuberculosis in VietNam: a gender analysis
  
• ​Delays in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis patients in Vietnam: a cross-sectional study
  
• ​Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype emerging in Vietnam.
  
• ​Gender inequalities in tuberculosis: aspects of infection, notification rates, and compliance
  
• ​Chest X-ray findings in relation to gender and symptoms: A study of patients with smear positive tuberculosis in Vietnam
  
• Trust and Transparency in Human Encounters in Tuberculosis Control: Lessons Learned from Vietnam
  
• Challenges in detection and treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis patients in Vietnam
  
  

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Resources in Spanish

Resources, guidelines, and reports

• La tuberculosis en poblaciones específicas​
  
• ​CDC (Sp): Lo que necesita saber sobre la prueba
  cutánea de la tuberculina