Tuberculosis control in resource-poor countries: have we reached the limits of the universal paradigm?

@article{Lienhardt2004TuberculosisCI,
  title={Tuberculosis control in resource-poor countries: have we reached the limits of the universal paradigm?},
  author={Christian Lienhardt and Jessica Ann Ogden},
  journal={Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH},
  year={2004},
  volume={9 7},
  pages={
          833-41
        }
}

• Christian Lienhardt, Jessica Ann Ogden
• Published 2004 in
  Tropical medicine & international health : TM…

The aim of TB control is to break the cycle of transmission by treating TB cases as early and efficiently as possible. In its efforts to promote a model of worldwide TB control, WHO defined specific targets and launched the 'Directly Observed Therapy, Short-course' (DOTS) strategy as the main tool to reach them. However, the diversity of patients' attitudes towards the disease and the extreme variability of access to care, especially in resource-poor countries, are amongst the many factors of… CONTINUE READING

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