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Tuberculosis Control Program
Phil Griffin, Director
1000 SW Jackson, Suite 210
Topeka, KS 66612
Phone: (785) 296-5589
FAX: (785) 291-3732The Kansas Tuberculosis Control Program provides support to local public health agencies, private physicians, and health care facilities involved in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis. The Program works to prevent transmission of TB through three strategies:
- by ensuring that infectious TB patients are appropriately treated until they are rendered and remain non-infectious;
- by ensuring that persons infected with TB who are not presently infectious remain non-infectious through the use of preventive drug therapy; and
- by creating a community of health care providers knowledgeable in the diagnosis and treatment of TB infection and disease through the provision of educational programs on TB across Kansas.
The Program provides medical consultation to health care providers, technical support to local health officials in conducting effective contact investigations, and free anti-tuberculosis medications to health professionals treating patients with TB infection or TB disease. The program also maintains surveillance on the incidence of TB in Kansas to identify populations at increased risk for the disease.
