Mukund Uplekar

TL;DR: Ending the tuberculosis epidemic in high-incidence countries needs a similar approach that guarantees access to high-quality tuberculosis care and prevention to all while simul taneously addressing the social determinants of tuberculosis.

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: The International Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ISTC) describe a widely endorsed level of care that all practitioners should seek to achieve in managing individuals who have, or are suspected of having, tuberculosis.

TL;DR: The guidelines strongly recommend systematic testing and treatment of LTBI in people living with HIV, adult and child contacts of pulmonary TB cases, patients initiating anti-tumour necrosis factor treatment, patients receiving dialysis, patients preparing for organ or haematological transplantation and patients with silicosis.

TL;DR: The need for a new strategy that builds on and goes beyond DOTS has been recognised by the Second Ad-hoc Committee on the Global TB Epidemic and the 2005 World Health Assembly.