Barriers to reaching the targets for tuberculosis control: multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
The development and expansion of WHO’s DOTS strategy was successful, with 83% of the world’s population living in countries or parts of countries covered by this strategy by the end of 2004. Treatment success in the 2003 DOTS cohort of 1.7 million patients was 82% on average, close to the 85% target...
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| Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
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| Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862007000500018&lng=en&tlng=en |