The billions of people with latent tuberculosis infection serve as the seedbeds for future
cases of active tuberculosis. Virtually all episodes of tuberculosis disease are preceded by a …

Tuberculosis is still one of the most important causes of death worldwide. The 2010 Lancet
tuberculosis series provided a comprehensive overview of global control efforts and …

Summary The Millennium Development Goal target for tuberculosis control is to halt the
spread of tuberculosis by 2015, and begin to reverse the worldwide incidence. After the …

Executive summary Tuberculosis can be treated, prevented, and cured. Rapid, sustained
declines in tuberculosis deaths in many countries during the past 50 years provide …

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 …

Since 1989, the USA has been pursuing the goal of tuberculosis elimination. After
substantial progress during the past two decades, the rate of tuberculosis cases in the USA …

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 …

Weak health systems are hindering global efforts for tuberculosis care and control, but little
evidence is available on effective interventions to address system bottlenecks. This report …

Tuberculosis is the number one cause of death from infectious disease globally and drug-
resistant forms of the disease are a major risk to global health security. On the occasion of …

Despite policies, strategies, and guidelines, the epidemic of HIV-associated tuberculosis
continues to rage, particularly in southern Africa. We focus our attention on the regions with …