Jean Pierre Tarika

Jean Pierre Tarika replied to "An Advocacy Strategy for Adoption and Dissemination of the WHO Policy on TB Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities, Congregate Settings and Households" in the TB Infection Control community.

I am not reponding to this discussion but I would like to present brefly the aspect of a ward in wich TB patients must be hospitalised or a room for consultation in order to reduce contamination. THe room or the ward for consultation or hospitalisation must be as wide as possible. It must have large windows and large doors. Those windows and doors must be opened for a long time like all the day for ...

Jean Pierre Tarika replied to "Health Facilities in resource-limited setting" in the TB Infection Control community.

Thank you for the information about TB infection control you give me regularly. In some developing country these different means of control are difficulty. The prevention method used by staff who work in TB wards is the use of masks when they are in contact with TB patients. Another way of contamination of staff is during consultation and treatment of outpatient and inpatient before diagnosis because they don't know who has TB infection or not. ...