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Testing and Treating the Missing Millions with Tuberculosis
The theme for World TB Day 2015 is "Reach, Treat, Cure Everyone."
Currently, of the estimated 9 million people who develop TB worldwide each year, about one-third are not diagnosed, treated, or tracked by national TB programs.
In a Guest Editorial on World TB Day, Madhukar Pai and Puneet Dewan identify programmatic and policy changes needed to accelerate progress towards the goal of ending TB by 2035.
Image Credit: Madhukar Pai
Citation: (2015) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 12(3) March 2015. PLoS Med 12(3): ev12.i03. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v12.i03
Published: March 31, 2015
Copyright: © 2015 Pai. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The theme for World TB Day 2015 is "Reach, Treat, Cure Everyone."
Currently, of the estimated 9 million people who develop TB worldwide each year, about one-third are not diagnosed, treated, or tracked by national TB programs.
In a Guest Editorial on World TB Day, Madhukar Pai and Puneet Dewan identify programmatic and policy changes needed to accelerate progress towards the goal of ending TB by 2035.
Image Credit: Madhukar Pai