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
Editorial
Testing and Treating the Missing Millions with Tuberculosis
PLOS Medicine: published March 24, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001805
Perspective
Role of Acute HIV Infection in Driving HIV Transmission: Implications for HIV Treatment as Prevention
PLOS Medicine: published March 17, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001803
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UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
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Policy Forums
A Public Health Approach to Hepatitis C Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Paying Physicians to Prescribe Generic Drugs and Follow-On Biologics in the United States
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Strengthening the Detection of and Early Response to Public Health Emergencies: Lessons from the West African Ebola Epidemic
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Ultra-Sensitive Detection of Plasmodium falciparum by Amplification of Multi-Copy Subtelomeric Targets
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Association between Traffic-Related Air Pollution in Schools and Cognitive Development in Primary School Children: A Prospective Cohort Study
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CD47 Agonist Peptides Induce Programmed Cell Death in Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia B Cells via PLCγ1 Activation: Evidence from Mice and Humans
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Sugar Industry Influence on the Scientific Agenda of the National Institute of Dental Research’s 1971 National Caries Program: A Historical Analysis of Internal Documents
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Reassessment of HIV-1 Acute Phase Infectivity: Accounting for Heterogeneity and Study Design with Simulated Cohorts
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Formal Comments
HIV Treatment-As-Prevention Research: Authors’ Reply
PLOS Medicine: published March 10, 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001799
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