Can public-private collaboration promote tuberculosis case detection among the poor and vulnerable?

Private-public mix (PPM) DOTS is widely advocated as a DOTS adaptation for promoting progress towards the international tuberculosis (TB) control targets of detecting 70% of TB cases and successfully treating 85% of these. Private health care plays a central role in health-care provision in many dev...

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Main Authors: Rasmus Malmborg, Gillian Mann, Rachael Thomson, S Bertel Squire
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862006000900019&lng=en&tlng=en