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The Global Health eLearning Center is pleased to offer this course on Tuberculosis Basics. Learners who take this course will be oriented to key concepts on tuberculosis (TB) and its global impact, as well as strategies that are currently under way to control TB. This course covers topics such as:

TB's re-emergence as an urgent global threat
The way TB is spread, and how it can be controlled and prevented
The DOTS strategy
Diagnosis and treatment of TB
Global TB initiatives under way, and the importance of vaccine research
USAID's TB strategy and the Bureau for Global Health's TB resource investments

This course also discusses TB and HIV co-infection – a lethal combination, key elements of capacity development for TB programming, and new directions for TB control.

What others are saying about this eLearning course:

"So far I have conducted four training workshops plus one in-house training . . . . [O]ur project is an AIDS response initiative where we are building capacities of communities to be able to take care of the HIV/AIDS infected and affected. The materials that we are using are basically from . . . the Tuberculosis Basics course . . . [and from five other] . . . Learning Center courses . . . ."

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