Advocacy: Advocacy Tools

Fact Sheets

CDC, Questions and Answers About TB 2007 (www.cdc.gov/tb/faqs/qa.htm)

RESULTS, CDC's Domestic & Global TB Funding Needs for Fiscal Year 2006 (May 2005) (pdf file)

WHO, Tuberculosis Fact Sheet No 104 (March 2007) (www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs104/en/)

Letters

(Parentheses indicate to whom the letter is addressed)

CTCA, March 26, 2008 (Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California State Legislature)

CTCA, March 7, 2008 (Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California State Legislature)

American Thoracic Society (Nuala Moore) September 19, 2007 (ATS Advocacy Network)

CCLHO, June 8, 2007 (California Legislature)

CCLHO, Dec 11, 2006 (Delegation from California)

CCLHO, Apr 25, 2006 (Delegation from California)

State of California Health and Human Services Agency, Mar 13, 2006 (Secretary Leavitt, US Dept of Health and Human Services)

State of California Health and Human Services Agency, Mar 9, 2006 (Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, Director, CDC)

ALALAC, Oct 25, 2005 (Representative Waxman)

CTCA, Oct 13, 2005 (Dr. Mitchell Cohen, Director, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC, and Dr. Julie Gerberding, CDC Director)

NTCA, Oct 5, 2005 (Dr. Mitchell Cohen, Director, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC, and Dr. Julie Gerberding, CDC Director)

ACET (Dr. Mitchell Cohen, Director, Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC)

State of California Health and Human Services Agency, Jul 13, 2005 (Senator Boxer)

ACET, Mar 4, 2005 (Secretary Leavitt, US Dept of Health and Human Services)

ATS, May 12, 2005 (TB Advocates)

CCLHO, Apr 5, 2005 (Senator Feinstein)

CCLHO, Apr 5, 2005 (Representative Lewis)

CCLHO, Apr 5, 2005 (Director Shewry, California Department of Health Services)

Fresno County, May 17, 2005 (Assemblyman Arambula)

Other Resources

TB Cases and Rates, California and Local Health Jurisdictions, 1995-2004:

Tuberculosis Cases and Case Rates per 100,000 Population: California, 1985-2004 (Dec 2005)

Tuberculosis Cases by Race/Ethnicity, Age Group, Sex, Birthplace: California, 1995-2004 (Dec 2005)

Tuberculosis Case Rates per 100,000 Population by Race/Ethnicity, Age Group, Sex: California, 1995-2004 (Dec 2005)

Tuberculosis Cases by Year: Reporting Jurisdictions in California, 1995-2004 (Dec 2005)

Tuberculosis Case Rates per 100,000 Population: Reporting Jurisdictions in California, 1995-2004 (Dec 2005)

TB Funding:

Federal TB Funding Allocation per TB Case by State, 2005 (Oct 2005)

Resources on Tuberculosis in California's Hmong Communities:

Minimum Duration of Tuberculosis Care Required from Public Health Departments in California to Contain the TB Outbreak in Hmong Refugees from Thailand (Oct 2005)

Costs to California of the International Tuberculosis Outbreak in Hmong Refugees from Thailand (Oct 2005)

Expanding Advocacy Efforts:

Judith Thigpen, CTCA, Coordinated Tuberculosis Advocacy Efforts in California: Moving Beyond World TB Day (Feb 2005)