At a glance
- CureTB helps prevent the spread of tuberculosis (TB) by connecting people to care at their destinations when they travel between the United States and other countries.
- CureTB works with health authorities worldwide to support continued care and treatment completion, which helps prevent drug-resistant TB from developing and spreading.
About CureTB
CureTB helps reduce the spread of TB and drug-resistant TB by connecting people with TB to healthcare services when they move between the United States and other countries.
Health departments, healthcare providers, and others can request CureTB assistance in referring patients for ongoing TB care abroad. CureTB can also help health officials and healthcare providers get patients' TB treatment records from other countries and other U.S. states.
Services
TB treatment referral
- CureTB refers patients with confirmed or probable TB disease to public health authorities in their destination country.
- CureTB confirms patient contact information, provides counseling about completing treatment, sends relevant clinical and contact information to the receiving health authority, and follows up on treatment outcomes.
Clinical history request
- CureTB can request a patient's TB treatment history from national TB programs outside of the United States or from U.S. states.
Contact notification
- CureTB notifies public health authorities in other countries when a person diagnosed with TB in the United States has contacts in those countries.
- CureTB can also refer contacts to public health authorities in other countries if contacts relocate to another country after being identified in the United States, especially if they are under 5 years old or are immunocompromised.
How CureTB links patients to TB care abroad
CureTB connects people leaving the United States to TB care in other countries in five steps.
The CureTB Referral Process
- Step 1A healthcare professional or health department requests referral of a patient with confirmed or probable TB disease before the patient leaves the United States.
- Step 2CureTB confirms the patient's contact information and counsels them on the importance of completing treatment.
- Step 3CureTB refers the patient to the receiving health authority.
- Step 4CureTB follows up with the receiving authority to determine the patient's final treatment outcome.
- Step 5CureTB shares the final treatment outcome with the requesting agency.
Request a referral
How to submit a request for CureTB referral
- To request a CureTB referral for a patient, download the appropriate form for your request:
- Complete the form and attach reports for sputum smears, molecular tests, cultures, drug susceptibility, and pertinent radiology/pathology examinations as available.
- Send the form and attachments to CureTB by encrypted email. If you must send by fax, contact CureTB by phone first.
- If you do not receive a confirmation email from CureTB in 1 business day, please call.
*Please note, CureTB is not accepting clinical history or contact notification requests at this time. This webpage will be updated when those services becomes available again.
Notes:
- CureTB does not usually provide treatment referrals when a patient has fewer than 30 days of treatment remaining before traveling. In these situations, CureTB encourages the referring jurisdiction to provide enough medication for the patient to complete treatment and follows up after departure to confirm completion.
- Cultures and drug susceptibility tests are not routinely performed in all countries and may not be available.
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