Stopping tuberculosis proves hard to do

摘要

Tuberculosis continues to kill nearly 2 million people every year, most of whom are in the lowest income countries Since the launch of WHO'S new Stop TB Strategy a year ago in this journal, three major threats to tuberculosis control can be identified: the spread of all forms of drug resistance, including extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB); the challenges of successfully diagnosing and treating HIV-infected patients with tuberculosis; and the failure to attract sufficient funding to put all necessary control measures into place These threats indicate that global tuberculosis control targets will not be met