The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease model National Tuberculosis Programmes
| Autor: | D.A. Enarson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Government Economic growth Tuberculosis biology Immunology Developing country Norwegian biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Microbiology Health intervention language.human_language Priority review Tanzania Political science Agency (sociology) language medicine |
| Zdroj: | Tubercle and Lung Disease. 76:95-99 |
| ISSN: | 0962-8479 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0962-8479(95)90548-0 |
| Popis: | The objective of tuberculosis programmes is the elimination of tuberculosis from society by stopping the transmission of tuberculous infection, resulting in the eventual disappearance of the disease. That this can be accomplished has been shown in a number of communities. It can best be achieved through the identification and effective treatment of infectious cases, without at the same time creating resistance to the antibiotics used. Since the late 1970s, the focus of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease's (IUATLD) activities with respect to tuberculosis has been the development of an appropriate model for the National Tuberculosis Programme in developing countries. Such a model was developed in Tanzania in collaboration with the Government of Tanzania, the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation and the Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association, and has subsequently been applied to six other countries in Africa as well as to Nicaragua, with the technical assistance of the IUATLD and additional financial support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the Norwegian National Health Association, the Norwegian Lung and Heart Association, the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Swiss National Tuberculosis Association. The model has been applied in Vietnam with technical assistance of the Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association, and in Egypt with the technical assistance of the Netherlands Royal Tropical Institute and financial assistance from the Netherlands Ministry of Development Cooperation. In 1989, this model was evaluated within the Health Sectors Priority Review of the World Bank and assessed as among the most cost-effective of any health intervention in developing countries. It was subsequently adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the appropriate model for tuberculosis control in developing countries and is being applied in China. |
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