Sentence examples for tuberculosis control efforts from inspiring English sources

Given the lack of empirical evidence that DOTS reduces tuberculosis burden, considerable debate has arisen about its place in the future of global tuberculosis control efforts.

Drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) once confined to hospitals and institutional settings,is now widespread in some communities and stands to undermine global tuberculosis control efforts.

The lineages of M. tuberculosis that dominated among elderly patients diagnosed with assumed reactivated tuberculosis during 1998 2008, probably represented strains that are about to be eliminated after more than a century of tuberculosis control efforts in Norway [9].

An independent evaluation of DOTS, one of the most widely-implemented and longest-running interventions in global health, is a prerequisite for meaningful improvements to tuberculosis control efforts, including WHO's new Stop TB Strategy.

While understandable from the perspective of the city clinics, with a daily load of 100 200 outpatients, shortage of medical and laboratory staff, and no means of pre-selecting high risk patients (such as chest X-ray services), this delay in detecting TB cases for patients already in contact with the health system is a threat to tuberculosis control efforts.

Given that DOTS will likely continue to occupy a central place in global tuberculosis control efforts in coming years, the question of what DOTS has or has not accomplished over the past 15 years is a central technical question; it is also critical to global health transparency and accountability.

Interventions to improve adherence to treatment for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) are necessary to improve treatment completion rates and optimise tuberculosis (TB) control efforts.

Global tuberculosis (TB) control efforts are facing the additional challenge of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).

Rapid screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis disease (TB) is still challenging and critically needed for global TB control efforts.

TB control efforts are also complicated by the co-existence of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.

Because these types of tuberculosis are very difficult and costly to treat, they provide significant challenges to TB control efforts.