Translated TB Patient Education Materials
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Several sites include patient education material on Tuberculosis in different languages. The list below identifies some of the topics available, the organization or site it comes from (including a link), and the different languages options, with English listed first.
TB Materials on Ethnomed
- EthnoMed: Somali Tuberculosis Patient Education
- A Somali language audio recording to be used as an educational tool to introduce the topic of TB.
- Pills to Prevent TB
- Source: On EthnoMed, 3 page pamphlet includes target language/English
English/Oromo English/Somali
Similar pamphlet, 6 pages, scanned document from AAPCHO
English/Chinese English/Khmer English/Korean English/Spanish English/Tagalog English/Vietnamese - The Tuberculosis Skin Test
- Source: On EthnoMed
English/Somali English/Spanish English/Vietnamese
- Tuberculosis: Get the Facts
- Source: CDC information on EthnoMed
English Somali Spanish Vietnamese
Additional languages of this brochure are available from the
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
TB Materials: Database Collections
Refugee Health Information Network
Refugee Health Information Network(RHIN) provides a database of quality multilingual, health information resources for those providing care to resettled refugees and asylees. There are a number of TB listings, including many of the ones listed below.
Centers for Disease Control
CDC has a good search tool for TB Education and Training Materials.
TB Materials: Outside Resources
This is a list of outside links that include TB patient education materials in many languages. The links are generally to a main page of the topic so you can see what languages are offered.Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
AAPCHO is a national association representing community health organizations dedicated to improving the health status and access of Asian Americans & Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.
- What You Should Know about Tuberculosis
- Chinese | English | Ilocano | Korean | Tagalog | Thai | Vietnamese
- Get the Facts
- Chinese | Korean | Tagalog | Vietnamese
Healthy Roads Media
Healthy Roads Media has the following TB materials in a variety of multimedia formats.
- Do I Need a TB Skin Test?
- English | Arabic | French | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese
- TB and BCG
- English | Arabic | French | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese
- TB Disease - You Need Treatment to make you Well
- English | Arabic | French | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese
- TB and HIV A Dangerous Partnership
- English | Arabic | French | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese
- What is a TB Test?
- English | Arabic | French | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese
- What You Should Know about Taking TB Medicines
- English | Arabic | French | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese
Minnesota Department of Health
- Active Tuberculosis
- Source: Minnesota Department of Health
English | Amharic | Arabic | Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian | Hmong | Karen | Khmer | Lao | Oromo | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tibetan | Vietnamese - Instructions for collecting Sputum for TB
- Source: Minnesota Department of Health
English | Amharic | Arabic | Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian | Hmong | Karen | Khmer | Lao | Oromo | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tibetan | Vietnamese - The TB Skin Test (Mantoux)
- Source: Minnesota Department of Health
English | Amharic | Arabic | Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian | Hmong | Karen | Khmer | Lao | Oromo | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tibetan | Vietnamese - Treatment for Latent TB Infection
- Source: Minnesota Department of Health
English | Amharic | Arabic | Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian | Hmong | Karen | Khmer | Lao | Oromo | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tibetan | Vietnamese - TB Contact Investigations
- Source: Minnesota Department of Public Health
English | Amharic | Arabic | Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian | Hmong | Karen | Khmer | Lao | Oromo | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tibetan | Vietnamese
Nashville, TN Health Department Program
The following materials can be accessed at
Nashville Health Department TB Site
- STOP TB
- English | Burmese | Nepali | Swahili
- TB Get the Facts
- English | Burmese | Nepali | Swahili
Public Health Seattle & King County
- Common Questions about TB
- Public Health Seattle & King County Tuberculosis Pages.
Chinese | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Vietnamese
San Francisco Department of Public Health
The following materials can be accessed at:
San Francisco Department of Public Health TB Clinic web site.
- What is Tuberculosis?
- English | Chinese | Russian | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese
- I have been exposed to TB: What do I do now?
- English | Chinese | Russian | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese
- What do I need to know about Latent TB Infection?
- English | Chinese | Russian | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese
- What do I need to know about Active TB Disease?
- English | Chinese | Russian | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese
Virginia Department of Health
The following materials can be accessed at:
Virginia Department of Health TB Site.
- Just the Facts about BCG and TB
- English | Amharic | Arabic | Chinese (Traditional Script) | Farsi | Hindi | Indonesian | Koran | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Tigrinya | Urdu | Vietnamese
- Do I Need a TB Skin Test?
- English | Amharic | Arabic | Chinese (Traditional Script) | Farsi | Hindi | Indonesian | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Tigrinya | Urdu | Vietnamese
- Stop TB Infection Before it Makes you Sick
- English | Amharic | Arabic | Chinese (Traditional Script) | Farsi | Hindi | Indonesian | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Tigrinya | Urdu | Vietnamese
- TB and HIV: A Dangerous Partnership
- English | Amharic | Arabic | Chinese (Traditional Script) | Farsi | Hindi | Indonesian | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Tigrinya | Urdu | Vietnamese
- TB Disease: You Need Treatment to Make you Well
- English | Amharic | Arabic | Chinese (Traditional Script) | Farsi | Hindi | Indonesian | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Tigrinya | Urdu | Vietnamese
- What is a TB Skin Test?
- English | Amharic | Arabic | Chinese (Traditional Script) | Farsi | Hindi | Indonesian | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Tigrinya | Urdu | Vietnamese
- What You Should Know About Taking TB Medicines
- English | Amharic | Arabic | Chinese (Traditional Script) | Farsi | Hindi | Indonesian | Korean | Russian | Somali | Spanish | Tagalog | Tigrinya | Urdu | Vietnamese
