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    Bangladesh: NGO and public sector tuberculosis service delivery – rapid assessment results

    Quality Assurance Project, 2004
    This paper by the Quality Assurance Project presents the results of a rapid assessment of the Bangladesh service delivery system for TB-DOTS (directly observed treatment for tuberculosis).
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    TB/HIV research priorities in resource-limited settings: report of an expert consultation, 14-15 February 2005, Geneva, Switzerland

    Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organisation (WHO), 2005
    This report, published by the World Health Organization (WHO), describes the outcomes from an expert consultation on research priorities for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV.
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    Community-based therapy for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Lima, Peru

    New England Journal of Medicine, 2003
    This article, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, examines a community-based programme in Lima, Peru that provides treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (a form of tuberculosis that is resistant to two or more of the main drugs used to treat it).
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    To control and beyond: moving towards eliminating the global tuberculosis threat

    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2004
    This article, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, considers ways that tuberculosis (TB) could be controlled and eventually eliminated. It explains that the current global strategy – directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) – involves providing treatment to patients who test positively for TB, and watching them take it.
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    The economic divide and tuberculosis

    EMBO Reports, 2005
    This article, published in EMBO Reports, examines the links between social inequality, poverty and tuberculosis (TB). It traces the history of tuberculosis and notes that the differences between previous epidemics and the current situation include the global extent of the problem, density of human population, globalisation and extensive population movements, and the HIV epidemic.
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    TB and poverty: are we doing enough?

    EQUI-TB Knowledge Programme, 2006
    This report, published by Equi-TB, describes the outcomes of a 2005 meeting on tuberculosis (TB) and poverty. Topics discussed at the meeting included defining and measuring poverty; ensuring that tools for TB control such as “DOTS” – the World Health Organization’s recommended strategy – reach the poor; and service delivery issues.
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    Diagnostic and treatment delay among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

    BioMed Central Infectious Diseases, 2005
    This study, published in BMC Infectious Diseases, examines the reasons why there is often a delay in receiving treatment in tuberculosis (TB) in Ethiopia. It notes that delayed diagnosis and treatment of TB results in severe disease and a greater likelihood of the patient dying. Amongst the patients studied, there was typically a delay of 80 days before the patient received treatment.
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    Global tuberculosis control - surveillance, planning, financing: WHO report 2006

    World Health Organization, 2006
    This World Health Organization annual report provides an update on the results of national tuberculosis (TB) control programmes, focusing on 22 countries where the burden of TB is high. Although both the prevalence of TB and mortality rates due to TB have fallen globally between 1990 and 2004, TB incidence has continued to rise in Africa, following the spread of HIV.
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    Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for tuberculosis control in developing countries

    British Medical Journal, 2005
    This article, published in the British Medical Journal, assesses the costs and health effects of tuberculosis control interventions in Africa and south east Asia. It focuses on DOTS (directly observed treatment, short-course), the internationally recommended tuberculosis control strategy.
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    Evolution of tuberculosis control and prospects for reducing tuberculosis incidence, prevalence and deaths globally

    Journal of the American Medical Association, 2005
    This paper, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, examines the prospects for meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on tuberculosis (TB) control. The goals included detecting 70 per cent of new cases and successfully treating 85 per cent of them by the end of 2005; reducing TB incidence; and halving TB prevalence and deaths globally between 1990 and 2015.

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