Assessing tuberculosis management: what really happens to patients?

The End Tuberculosis Strategy, recently launched by WHO¹ and focused on the goal of tuberculosis elimination,² emphasises the role of quality management of the disease. Adequate prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with tuberculosis together form an essential part of the strategy to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis to fewer than one case per 1 million population by 2050. Appropriate strategies for the management of tuberculosis include improved diagnosis and treatment for both active and latent infection and a new effective vaccine for primary prevention.^{1, 2}