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Post-2015 tuberculosis strategies in a pre-2015 world

David W. Dowdy, MD PhD and Richard E. Chaisson, MD
Jan. 11, 2013, 8:27 p.m.
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We should not debate post-2015 targets without first shaping pre-2015 goals to better reflect today’s TB pandemic and the tools - new drugs, integrated HIV-TB services, and molecular diagnostics - that we now have to fight it.

The year 2015 is still a long way away, with millions of lives in the balance, and there is much work to be done in the meantime.

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Source: The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease