Improving access to tuberculosis preventive therapy and treatment for children

Children suffer a huge burden of disease in tuberculosis (TB) endemic countries. This disease burden was largely invisible when TB control programmes focused exclusively on adults with sputum smear-positive disease. High-level advocacy and better data have improved visibility, but the establishment...

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Main Author: Ben J. Marais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-03-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971216316587