Customization Guide

Module / Customization Level / Specific Instructions
  1. Overview: Tuberculosis, The Global Emergency
/ Customize at Country Level / Text: Update current NTP strategy
Slide 6: Insert statistics from your country on the TB burden.
Customize at workshop level for Microscopy Centers / Slide: 10
Modify this slide if no demonstration is planned to understand the droplet formation and time required for the droplet nuclei to remain suspended in the air.
  1. Safety Precautions for Tuberculosis Microscopy
/ Customize at Country Level / Slide: 11, 12,13, 14
Modify these slides to reflect country specific safe practices adopted for AFB smear microscopy.
Customize at workshop level for District and Regional Laboratories / Slide: 19
Modify to reflect waste disposal in your settings and explain the usefulness of these practices to the local environment.
Customize at workshop level for Microscopy Centers / Slide: 19
Modify to reflect waste disposal in your settings and explain the usefulness of these practices to the local environment.
  1. Collection and Transport of Tuberculosis Specimens
/ Customize at Country Level / Slide: 4, 5, 6, 10, 23
Modify to reflect NTP specific recommendations and local availability of sample collection containers e.g. disposable and reusable containers and sample collection form
  1. Managing Supplies
/ Customize at Country Level / Slide: 5, 13-26, 27-41, 42
Modify to add NTP specific guidelines in relation to procurement, preparation, and distribution of reagents and other supplies.
  1. Preparation of Ziehl-Neelsen Reagents
/ Customize at Country Level / Slide: 7, 11, 12, 13, 14
Modify to represent your country specific concentrations of reagents.
Customize at workshop level for Microscopy Centers / Entire module
Modify or omit the entire module if you are not preparing reagents in the center.
Modify to check the quality of reagents you receive and use.
  1. Smear Preparation and Staining
/ Customize at Country Level / Slide: 5, 6, 21, 25, 27
Modify to country specific usage of materials for preparation and staining of smears.
  1. Microscopy
/ Customize at Country Level / Slide:18, 19
Modify to reflect your routine practices in removing oil from smears and storage of slides.
  1. Recording and Reporting of Smears
/ Customize at Country Level / Slide: 5,7,13
Modify to show your NTP forms for the recording and reporting and the NTP register.
  1. Microscope Maintenance
/ Customize at Country Level / Slide: 5, 6
Modify to show the recommended cleaning solvents or solutions and other materials for microscopes in your setting.
Customize at workshop level for District and Regional Laboratories / Slide: 5, 6,
Modify to show the recommended cleaning solvents or solutions and other materials for microscopes in your setting.
Customize at workshop level for Microscopy Centers / Slide: 5, 6,
Modify to show the recommended cleaning solvents or solutions and other materials for microscopes in your setting.
  1. Assuring Quality of Sputum Microscopy
/ Customize at Country Level / Add slides to reflect the current practices and plan to expand EQA activities in the country.

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