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World tuberculosis day 2023 – Reflections on the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis by travellers and reducing risk in forcibly displaced populations

dc.contributor.authorRodriguez-Morales, A.J.
dc.contributor.authorAbbara, A.
dc.contributor.authorNtoumi, F.
dc.contributor.authorKapata, N.
dc.contributor.authorMwaba, P.
dc.contributor.authorYeboah-Manu, D.
dc.contributor.authorMaeurer, M.
dc.contributor.authorDar, O.
dc.contributor.authorAbubakar, I.
dc.contributor.authorZumla, A.
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-31T18:32:33Z
dc.date.available2025-10-31T18:32:33Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12805/4693
dc.description.abstractWorld Tuberculosis (TB) Day, March 24th, 2023, will commemorate the day in 1882 when Professor Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) when TB ravaged Europe. Over a century later, in 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared TB a global health emergency. Since then, there have been 60 million deaths due to TB. The tragic state of affairs reflects a great paradox – that, despite affordable and effective TB treatment being available for the past seven decades, the latest 2022 WHO Annual Global Tuberculosis Report highlights that TB remains a leading cause of ill health and death from an infectious disease worldwide...en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipIA, FN, DYM, NK, OD, PM and AZ acknowledge support from the EU European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership-funded Pan-African Network for Rapid Research, Response, Relief and Preparedness for infectious diseases epidemics (PANDORA-ID-NET) , Central African Network on Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and Malaria (CANTAM-3) , and East African Consortium for Clinical Research (EACCR3) programmes. IA acknowledges support from a UK NIHR Senior Investigator Award and an NIHR Programme Grant (RID-TB) . AZ receives a UK National Institutes for Health Research Senior Investigator award and is a Mahathir Foundation Science Award and Pascoal Mocumbi Prize laureate . All other authors declare no competing interests. The views expressed in this Editorial are entirely those of the authors and do not reflect the opinions of their respective institutions.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofurn:issn:1477-8939
dc.rightshttps://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectSDG 3en_US
dc.subjectTuberculosis Treatment and Diagnostic Innovationsen_US
dc.subjectHealth Challenges of Migrants with Tuberculosisen_US
dc.titleWorld tuberculosis day 2023 – Reflections on the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis by travellers and reducing risk in forcibly displaced populationsen_US
dc.typehttps://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_b239
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2023.102568
dc.subject.ocdehttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.08
dc.type.otherEditorial
dc.identifier.journalTravel Medicine and Infectious Disease
dc.type.versionhttps://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85


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