Too little too late: Waiting for TB to come

There is a new paradigm that preventing tuberculosis (TB) and addressing the reservoir of latent TB infection in combination with curing all TB cases is essential to accelerate the decline of TB rates and ending TB by 2050. However, complacency and incremental change eludes radical policy transforma...

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Autor principal: Kawamura, L. Masae
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29579422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtb.2018.01.002
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description There is a new paradigm that preventing tuberculosis (TB) and addressing the reservoir of latent TB infection in combination with curing all TB cases is essential to accelerate the decline of TB rates and ending TB by 2050. However, complacency and incremental change eludes radical policy transformation needed to meet global targets. This essay explores current attitudes, policy disparities between high and lower burden settings, and what changes are needed to remove the obstacles to progress.
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spelling pubmed-70943332020-03-25 Too little too late: Waiting for TB to come Kawamura, L. Masae Indian J Tuberc Viewpoint There is a new paradigm that preventing tuberculosis (TB) and addressing the reservoir of latent TB infection in combination with curing all TB cases is essential to accelerate the decline of TB rates and ending TB by 2050. However, complacency and incremental change eludes radical policy transformation needed to meet global targets. This essay explores current attitudes, policy disparities between high and lower burden settings, and what changes are needed to remove the obstacles to progress. Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2018-04 2018-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7094333/ /pubmed/29579422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtb.2018.01.002 Text en © 2018 Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094333/
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