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• Brown University: TB/HIV Research Laboratory
  "site includes information on immunopathology and epidemiology of TB/HIV infection and tuberculosis vaccine development"
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S): Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
  "an excellent, authoritative site for "frequently asked questions" on tuberculosis, calendar of events, tuberculosis notes, newsletter, other educational materials plus links to other www sites"
• Columbia-Presbyterian Tuberculosis Resourse
  "contains information on the clinical policies and protocols; site also has information about tuberculosis for patients and a listing of links to related sites on the www"
• International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  "the website provides full-text access to the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, plus several full-text guides for low-income countries: Management of Tuberculosis; Sputum Examination for Tuberculosis by Direct Microscopy; and Management of the Child with Cough or Difficult Breathing"
• National Tuberculosis Center (U.S.)
  "site of a U.S. wide model for treating tuberculosis in the inner city, that includes infformation on its outreach program that tracks tuberculosis patients to ensure adherence to medication regimens"
• SA HealthInfo: Tuberculosis
  "module contains links to information (reports, articles, newsletters) developed by the South African MRC; it also allows selected links to international sources of TB information"
• Stanford Center for Tuberculosis Research: Links
  "site provides a gateway to Internet sites on tuberculosis that originally was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases; contains information about the Center and their molecular epidemiological research on tuberculosis"
• Stop TB Initiative"
  "mission is to ensure that every person with TB has all the necessary information and access to treatment and cure; to protect vulnerable populations from TB and and to prevent the unnecessary social and economic tolls of TB; includes fulltext articles and news updates plus links to relevant newsletter articles and websites"
• TB Training Tools
  "site contains information on resources for TB training programmes; training tools are in various formats with some available free on the Internet; each description gives information on how to obtain the tool"
• tb.net-the Global TB Network
  "resource centre for information about tuberculosis - about the disease itself, and also about training programmes, conferences, computer software, organisations, databases; contains links to sites with extensive clinical information and a broad subject index"
• World Health Organization: Global Tuberculosis Program
  "a comprehensive epidemiological sites that contains information on the latest tuberculosis facts and figures, groups at risk information, tuberculosis epidemic, clinical strategies (DOTS), etc.; also includes links to related www sites"
• For an extensive list of links to free fulltext books, see
• For a comprehensive, up-to-date list of links to free ejournals, see

Last updated March 4, 2002

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