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Tuberculosis control.
244 March 2014, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Suppl 1) Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health threat. Despite a slow decline in global TB rates, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 8.6 million new cases of TB in 2012 (13% in people living with HIV), resulting in 1.3 million deaths (23% among HIV-positive persons). South Africa (SA) has one of the world’s worst TB epidemics driven by HIV. The WHO...
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244 March 2014, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Suppl 1) Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health threat. Despite a slow decline in global TB rates, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 8.6 million new cases of TB in 2012 (13% in people living with HIV), resulting in 1.3 million deaths (23% among HIV-positive persons). South Africa (SA) has one of the world’s worst TB epidemics driven by HIV. The WHO...
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OBJECTIVE Correctional facilities have often been cited as reservoirs for tuberculosis (TB), presenting a potential threat to the general population. Although correctional facilities are recognised as ideal settings for interventions, little is known about the TB epidemiology within them. The purpose of our survey was to collect data on TB in prisons of the WHO European Region and on existing c...
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TUBERCULOSIS (TB) IS A MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERN WORLDWIDE despite a regular, although slow, decline in incidence over the last decade, as many as 8.6 million new cases and 1.3 million deaths were estimated to have occurred in 2012. TB is by all means a poverty-related disease, mainly affecting the most vulnerable populations in the poorest countries. The presence of multidrug-resistant strai...
متن کاملTuberculosis care and control.
Tuberculosis care, a clinical function consisting of diagnosis and treatment of persons with the disease, is the core of tuberculosis control, which is a public health function comprising preventive interventions, monitoring and surveill lance, as well as incorporating diagnosis and treatment. Thus, for tuberculosis control to be successful in protecting the health of the public, tuberculosis c...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(16)00706-6