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 …

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

Tuberculosis affected an estimated 8.8 million people and caused 1.4 million deaths globally
in 2010, including a half-million women and at least 64 000 children. It also results in …

Childhood tuberculosis (TB) is a preventable and curable infectious disease that remains
overlooked by public health authorities, health policy makers and TB control programmes. …

A significant drop in tuberculosis (TB) case-finding has been widely reported during the period
of the COVID-19 pandemic. To address a decrease in TB notification, Belarus introduced …

Comment 252 www. thelancet. com/respiratory Vol 4 April 2016 from 123 million to 152 million
doses in 2015 as a result of buffer stock replenishment and new requests from countries …

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
have joined forces to produce these guidelines. The goal is to improve the control of …

Objective of the Study We sought to understand gaps in reporting childhood TB cases among
public and private sector health facilities (dubbed “non-NTP” facilities) outside the network …

Tuberculosis (TB) is the number-1 infectious disease killer on the planet, but few people
appreciate that TB is also among the top-10 causes of under-5 mortality in TB endemic areas (…

Many of the current tuberculosis control programmes in the Russian Federation are based
on costly strategies which are underfunded and use long, individualized treatment regimens. …