Juan F. Vesga

TL;DR: The extent to which disruptions to services for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in low-income and middle-income countries with high burdens of these diseases could lead to additional loss of life over the next 5 years was quantified.

TL;DR: The Commission recommends five priority investments to achieve a tuberculosis-free world within a generation, which answer the question of how countries with high-burden tuberculosis and their development partners should target their future investments.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated how long term increases in TB burden could be averted in the short term through supplementary “catch-up” TB case detection and treatment, once restrictions are eased.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the Brazilian epidemic using three epidemiological measures, i.e., the number of infections, number of deaths, and the reproduction number, which is a measure of transmission intensity that an infected individual would infect three or four others on average.

TL;DR: This review discusses important considerations for the design and interpretation of cluster randomized controlled trials (C-RCTs) of combination prevention interventions and proposes the innovative use of mathematical modelling to conduct interim analyses, when interim HIV incidence data are not available.