1. Scaling up interventions to achieve global tuberculosis control: progress and new developments.
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Raviglione, Mario, Marais, Ben, Floyd, Katherine, Lönnroth, Knut, Getahun, Haileyesus, Miglior, Giovanni B., Harries, Anthony D., Nunn, Paul, Lienhardt, Christian, Groham, Steve, Chakaya, Jeremiah, Weyer, Karin, Cole, Stewart, Kaufmann, Stefan H. E., and Zumla, Alimuddin
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TUBERCULOSIS prevention , *CAUSES of death , *MORTALITY prevention , *INTERNATIONAL cooperation - Abstract
The article focuses on the developments in the global control efforts and challenges of tuberculosis, which is one of the common causes of death worldwide. It states that the world and some regions are on track to attain the Millennium Development Goal of reducing the incidence of tuberculosis and the Stop TB partnership target to reduce the 1990 mortality rates by half by 2015, except for Africa. It says that drug-resistant tuberculosis and scaling-up of tuberculosis remains challenging.
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- 2012
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