The growing burden of tuberculosis: global trends and interactions with the HIV epidemic

EL Corbett, CJ Watt, N Walker, D Maher… - Archives of internal …, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
Background The increasing global burden of tuberculosis (TB) is linked to human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Methods We reviewed data from notifications of TB …

Drivers of tuberculosis epidemics: the role of risk factors and social determinants

K Lönnroth, E Jaramillo, BG Williams, C Dye… - Social science & …, 2009 - Elsevier
The main thrust of the World Health Organization's global tuberculosis (TB) control strategy
is to ensure effective and equitable delivery of quality assured diagnosis and treatment of …

Tuberculosis control and elimination 2010–50: cure, care, and social development

K Lönnroth, KG Castro, JM Chakaya, LS Chauhan… - The lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
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 …

Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis

MJA Reid, N Arinaminpathy, A Bloom, BR Bloom… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Tuberculosis can be treated, prevented, and cured. Rapid, sustained
declines in tuberculosis deaths in many countries during the past 50 years provide …

Evolution of tuberculosis control and prospects for reducing tuberculosis incidence, prevalence, and deaths globally

C Dye, CJ Watt, DM Bleed, SM Hosseini… - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
ContextThe United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are stimulating more
rigorous evaluations of the impact of DOTS (the WHO-recommended approach to …

[PDF][PDF] Trends in tuberculosis incidence and their determinants in 134 countries

C Dye, K Lönnroth, E Jaramillo… - Bulletin of the World …, 2009 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether differences in national trends in tuberculosis incidence
are attributable to the variable success of control programmes or to biological, social and …

Peru–Progress in health and sciences in 200 years of independence

RM Carrillo-Larco, WC Guzman-Vilca… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Peru celebrates 200 years of independence in 2021. Over this period of independent life,
and despite the turbulent socio-political scenarios, from internal armed conflict to economic …

Global epidemiology of tuberculosis: prospects for control

K Lönnroth, M Raviglione - Seminars in respiratory and critical …, 2008 - thieme-connect.com
The burden of tuberculosis (TB) is now very slowly decreasing globally. However, the rate of
decline is too slow to reach all the epidemiological impact targets set for 2015. The …

Global tuberculosis control: lessons learnt and future prospects

C Lienhardt, P Glaziou, M Uplekar, K Lönnroth… - Nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is an ancient disease, but not a disease of the past. After disappearing
from the world public health agenda in the 1960s and 1970s, TB returned in the early 1990s …

Surveillance of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in the world: an updated analysis, 2007-2010

M Zignol, W Gemert, D Falzon… - Bulletin of the world …, 2012 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVE: To present a global update of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and explore
trends in 1994-2010. METHODS: Data on drug resistance among new and previously …