Richard Laing's Page of TB Links

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bulletWHO Page of Links STOP TB Links page
bulletWHO Global Tuberculosis Programme WHO General page of links and resources
bulletTB-net a Global resource site based in Nepal
bulletWorld TB Day At BUSPH 2000 Links to a number of useful presentations
bulletAction TB University of Cape Town Medical Microbiology page with useful links to basic and genomic research
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American Thoracic Society Statement on Treatment of Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis Infection in Adults and Children 

bulletNature TB Web Site Mainly scientific articles but some others Includes other web site links
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American Lung Association

bulletAnatomy of an Epidemic - Tuberculosis
bulletArnot Ogden Medical Center
bulletCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
bulletTuberculosis resources from the Bureau of Tuberculosis Control of the New York City Department of Health
bulletFrancis J. Curry National TB Center
bulletFrancis J. Curry National TB Center - Resources on the Net
bulletInternational Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
bulletInternational Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Web Site
bulletLSU Medical Center Wetmore TB Foundation
bulletNational TB Center - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
bulletNOAH
bulletSingapore Anti-TB Association
bulletStanford Center for Tuberculosis Research
bulletTB and Airborne Disease Weekly
bulletThe TB/HIV Research Laboratory
bullettb-net Web site (A general resource site which contains a number of useful links)
bulletBaltic Inventory of TB and other projects
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New Publications on Multiple Drug resistant Tuberculosis

bulletMulti-drug-resistant TB Treatment Guidelines from South Africa
bulletHarvard Medical School and Soros Foundation report on Multiple Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

(Plus accompanying editorial by Robert Horsburgh of BUSPH) http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v283n19/full/jed00029.html

bulletAskar Yedilbayev Surgical Management of Tuberculosis in the Russian Federation Excel Spreadsheet of TB Surgery in Russia 1991-2000
bulletStandard Short-Course Chemotherapy for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Treatment Outcomes in 6 Countries - Marcos A. Espinal, MD, DrPH; Sang Jae Kim, ScD; Pedro G. Suarez, MD; Kai Man Kam, MB; Alexander G. Khomenko, MD; Giovanni B. Migliori, MD; Janette Baéz, MD, MPH; Arata Kochi, MD, PhD; Christopher Dye, DPhil; Mario C. Raviglione, MD JAMA May 17 2000 http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v283n19/full/joc92107.html
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Responding to Market Failures in TB Control. 2000 Rajesh Gupta,* jim v. Kim, Marcos A. Espinal, Jean-Michel Caudron, Bernard Pecoul, Paul E. Farmer, Mario C. Raviglione Science 293 1049-1051

TB Drug Issues and Development

bulletThe Global Alliance for TB Drug Development  http://www.tballiance.org/
bulletTuberculosis Drug Issues: Prices, Fixed Dose Combination Products and Second Line Drugs
R.O. Laing, K. McGoldrick Department of International Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston Massachusetts
Paper presented at 5th North American Regional Meeting of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Vancouver February 26th 2000. Now published in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 4(12):S194-207
bulletPowerpoint presentation of above paper Adobe Acrobat File
bulletExcel Spreadsheet of data
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Dr. Rehan Azeem Concentration Paper Management of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in the Private  Health Sector of Pakistan

Review Article on TB Links

User's Guide to Tuberculosis Resources on the Internet Midori Kato-Maeda and Peter M. Small Clinical Infectious Diseases    2001;32:1580-1588 URL http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/issues/v32n11/001575/001575.html

TB Courses

Hans Rieder's website www.tbrieder.org.

African Regional Course in TB Drug Quality and Advanced TB Program Management

PowerPoint Presentations

Global Tuberculosis Control Strategies by Richard Laing & Kayla Laserson

Bejing TB Drugs Presentation Richard Laing