TB Laws and Policies
TB Control Laws and Policies: A Handbook for Public Health and Legal Practitioners
This monograph provides information for use by tribal, state, and local public health practitioners and their legal counsel to help improve their understanding and use of relevant laws to respond to challenges concerning TB control. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis; Centers for Law and the Public’s Health; National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention; National Tuberculosis Controllers Association; Public Health Law Program; 2009.
This project seeks to comprehensively characterize key legal patterns through an
examination of express TB (including MDR-TB and XDR-TB) control laws in twenty-five
selected U.S. jurisdictions. Its goal is to provide a baseline of factual information to assist efforts for improving public health authorities’ use of law as a tool for controlling TB. Centers for Law and the Public’s Health: A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, 2008.
ACET developed these recommendations to address discrepancies between previously published recommendations and guidelines for the control of TB and state TB control laws. To address these discrepancies, states updating TB control laws should incorporate current recommendations and guidelines from CDC, ACET, and the American Thoracic Society. State laws should permit policies and practices to be rapidly reviewed and amended as new data becomes available and new recommendations and guidelines are published. ACET, 1993.