Free market tuberculosis: Managing epidemics in post-Soviet Georgia

摘要

In 2000, all the United Nations (UN) member nations and many international organisations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), adopted eight Millennium Development Goals - significant steps towards improving health and quality of life on a global scale - that they sought to achieve by the year 2015. Among these goals was the successful control of tuberculosis (TB) through the expansion of the WHO-endorsed directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) strategy.