Gilda Popescu

TL;DR: An action framework for countries with low tuberculosis (TB) incidence sets out priority interventions required for these countries to progress first towards “pre-elimination” and eventually the elimination of TB as a public health problem.

TL;DR: E-DETECT TB uses evidenced-based approaches to target vulnerable populations, including migrants to the EU, homeless persons, prisoners, problem drug users and those with MDR-TB, with a special focus on migrant screening in Italy and active case finding in vulnerable groups in Romania.

TL;DR: The implementation of programmes for Tuberculosis Control (NPTC) in the medium term, starting in 1997, was the guarantor of the achievements in these years in TB control, therapeutic success rate of cases being a constant source of 80%.

TL;DR: In this article, a mobile X-ray unit (MXU) equipped with digital radiography, computer-aided detection (CAD) software and molecular point of care tests was used to improve early tuberculosis diagnosis in vulnerable populations in a TB outreach screening programme in Romania.

TL;DR: prisoners are vulnerable group for TB, mainly because of crowded space; the incidence among prisoners is about 6 times higher then in genearal population; TB control network in penitenciary has to take appropriate measures to limit the transmission among inmates and to treat them corectly and complete.