On May 19, 2014, the 67th World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted WHO’s “Global strategy
and targets for tuberculosis prevention, care and control after 2015”. 1 This post-2015 global …

The main thrust of the World Health Organization's global tuberculosis (TB) control strategy
is to ensure effective and equitable delivery of quality assured diagnosis and treatment of TB. …

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 …

In order to inform the development of appropriate strategies to improve financial risk protection,
we conducted a systematic literature review of the financial burden of tuberculosis (TB) …

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Background The End TB Strategy places great emphasis on increasing social protection
and poverty alleviation programmes. However, the role of social protection on controlling …

Rapid expansion of the standardised approach to tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment that
is recommended by WHO allowed more than 36 million people to be cured between 1995 …

Background Multiple studies of tuberculosis treatment have indicated that patients with
diabetes mellitus may experience poor outcomes. We performed a systematic review and meta-…

Background It has long been evident that there is an association between alcohol use and
risk of tuberculosis. It has not been established to what extent this association is confounded …

Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is characterised by the presence of immune responses
to previously acquired Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection without clinical evidence of …