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Global tuberculosis control: surveillance planning financing. WHO report 2008.
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World Health OrganizationTuberculosis PreventionPreventive MedicineGlobal Tuberculosis ControlGlobal Tb ControlGlobal ControlGlobal HealthcarePreventive TreatmentTuberculosis DiagnosticsPublic HealthPulmonary TuberculosisEpidemiological OutcomeTuberculosisPublic Health PolicyEpidemiologyGlobal HealthInternational HealthMedicineGlobal Health Epidemiology
The WHO’s twelfth annual tuberculosis control report, part of a series begun in 1997, reviews global TB control progress. The report assesses TB epidemiology and progress toward MDG and WHA targets, including halting incidence, reducing prevalence and mortality, and achieving detection and treatment benchmarks. The assessment draws on 2007 WHO data from 202 of 212 countries and territories, compiled annually since 1996, using the standard data collection form. An excerpt of the report is provided.
This report is the twelfth annual report on global control of tuberculosis (TB) published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in a series that started in 1997. It is based on data reported to WHO via its standard data collection form by 202 out of 212 countries and territories in 2007 and on the series of data collected from these countries and territories annually since 1996. Using these data we present our latest assessment of the epidemiological burden of TB as well as progress towards targets for global TB control that have been established within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and by the World Health Assembly (WHA) and Stop TB Partnership. The impact targets are to halt and reverse incidence by 2015 (MDG 6 Target 6.C) and to halve prevalence and death rates by 2015 compared with 1990. The outcome targets are to detect at least 70% of new smear-positive cases and to successfully treat 85% of those cases that are detected. (excerpt)