Improving access to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis diagnostic and health services for refugees and migrants

By the end of 2017, an estimated 68.5 million people were displaced from their homes worldwide, of whom 25.4 million were refugees. The transmission and globalization of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis during refugee migration is a now priority issue in the public health agenda. Political and scie...

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Autores principales: Zumla, Alimuddin, Abubakar, Ibrahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6267830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30497477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1218-0
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description By the end of 2017, an estimated 68.5 million people were displaced from their homes worldwide, of whom 25.4 million were refugees. The transmission and globalization of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis during refugee migration is a now priority issue in the public health agenda. Political and scientific commitment at the highest national and international levels will be critical to intensifying action in promoting improved health services for migrants and refugees.
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spelling pubmed-62678302018-12-05 Improving access to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis diagnostic and health services for refugees and migrants Zumla, Alimuddin Abubakar, Ibrahim BMC Med Commentary By the end of 2017, an estimated 68.5 million people were displaced from their homes worldwide, of whom 25.4 million were refugees. The transmission and globalization of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis during refugee migration is a now priority issue in the public health agenda. Political and scientific commitment at the highest national and international levels will be critical to intensifying action in promoting improved health services for migrants and refugees. BioMed Central 2018-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6267830/ /pubmed/30497477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1218-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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