Growing consensus indicates that progress in tuberculosis control in the low-and middle-
income world will require not only investment in strengthening tuberculosis control …

Improved tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment through the DOTS and Stop TB
strategies have saved millions of lives; however, their impact on TB incidence has been …

BACKGROUND: Social capital has been related to a number of important public health
variables such as overall mortality, health status, and sexually transmitted infections …

Poverty drives tuberculosis (TB) rates but the approach to TB control has been
disproportionately biomedical. In 2015, the World Health Organization's End TB Strategy …

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 …

Increased risk of tuberculosis is widely recognized to be associated with increased poverty,
yet there have been few analyses of the social determinants of tuberculosis, particularly in …

BACKGROUND: Many international organizations are advocating for new funds for
tuberculosis (TB) specific interventions. Although this approach should help reduce TB …

The resurgence of tuberculosis in recent years has obliged us to reconsider the existing
explanations of the disease. Whereas biomedical literature tends to explain tuberculosis in …

Tuberculosis is among the top ten causes of global mortality and affects low-income
countries in particular. This paper examines, through a literature review, the impact of …

Throughout the first three quarters of the 20th century, the incidence of tuberculosis declined
in industrialized countries (1, 2)(figure 1). Part of this decline may have been due to isolation …