This paper describes an action framework for countries with low tuberculosis (TB) incidence
(<100 TB cases per million population) that are striving for TB elimination. The framework …

Objectives To evaluate the access to comprehensive diagnostics and novel antituberculosis
medicines in European countries. Methods We investigated the access to genotypic and …

Background European-specific policies for tuberculosis (TB) elimination require identification
of key populations that benefit from TB screening. Aim We aimed to identify groups of …

SETTING: Malta, 2002–2005.OBJECTIVES: To describe the demography and tuberculosis (TB)
epidemiology of undocumented immigrants to Malta to tailor TB control strategies to this …

Background Due to its geographical position in the middle of the Mediterranean and at the
threshold of Europe, Malta has been experiencing a large influx of irregular migration since …

Monitoring the disease status of a nation has long been considered of great importance in
helping to decrease the spread of disease to the population. In recent years it can be said that …

Objectives To compare the differences in compliance with the DTP/DT immunisation schedule
in 1994, using the old schedule and in 1996, using the new schedule. To find out the …

As a result of the deinstitutionalisation of psychiatric services in Europe, fragmentation in
mental health care delivery systems has become a public mental health issue in many countries…

Extract With great interest we read the article by Zenner et al. [1] on drivers determining
tuberculosis screening yield in four European countries. The authors pooled individual-level data …

This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that
started in 1997. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic …