{"id":1603,"date":"2022-03-31T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2022-03-29T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T15:21:18","slug":"cdc-launches-think-test-treat-tb-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/cdc-launches-think-test-treat-tb-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Launches Think. Test. Treat TB Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1606 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/TB-2022-03-29-095838-300x227.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/TB-2022-03-29-095838-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2022\/03\/TB-2022-03-29-095838.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The CDC has recently launched a communication campaign on tuberculosis called Think.\u00a0 Test.\u00a0 Treat TB.\u00a0 \u00a0The campaigns goal is to increase testing and treatment for latent tuberculosis infection in the US.\u00a0 According to a recent blog on HIV.gov\u00a0 &#8220;Up to 13 million people are living with latent tuberculosis infection in the United States. Without treatment, 5-10% of people with latent TB infection will develop TB disease. Yet, the notion that TB is no longer a problem persists.&#8221;\u00a0 TB is an important public health issue that is disproportionately impacting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tb\/topic\/populations\/tbinasians\/default.htm\">Asian American communities<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0While the campaign will initially reach individuals born in Vietnam and the Philippines that currently reside in LA and Seattle, materials have been developed that can be used nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/thinktesttreattb\">CDC website<\/a> for more information on the campaign and to access free resources including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/thinktesttreattb\/partnerToolkit.html\">TB messages<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/thinktesttreattb\/resources.html?Sort=Last%20Updated%3A%3Aasc&amp;Language=English%20(US)\">digital and print resources<\/a>, social media content, patient and provider education materials, and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/thinktesttreattb\/partnerToolkit.html?ACSTrackingID=USCDCNPIN_2014-DM77937\">partner toolkit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDC has recently launched a communication campaign on tuberculosis called Think.\u00a0 Test.\u00a0 Treat TB.\u00a0 \u00a0The campaigns goal is to increase testing and treatment for latent tuberculosis infection in the US.\u00a0 According to a recent blog on HIV.gov\u00a0 &#8220;Up to 13 million people are living with latent tuberculosis infection in the United States. Without treatment,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/cdc-launches-think-test-treat-tb-campaign\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-hiv","category-public-health","category-regional-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/nphco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}