WHO surveys BCG programmes

BCG: who were Calmette and Guérin?

Epidemiological Surveys Embedded in Technical Assistance to Tuberculosis Control Programmes

Many National Tuberculosis Programmes (NTPs) receive Technical Assistance (TA) for the implementation and evaluation of their TB-control strategies. KNCV tuberculosis Foundation (KNCV) in the Netherlands is a TA organization providing assistance for many years in over 30 countries. The NTPs use their own surveillance data to assess TB control strategies. These data are not accurate enough to se...

BCG vaccination policies. Report of a WHO study group.

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BCG vaccines: Selected references for the WHO Position

This article describes the global epidemiology of tuberculosis and reviews recent estimates of tuberculosis incidence and mortality in the world. The highest prevalence of tuberculosis infection and estimated annual risk of tuberculosis infection are in subSaharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Overall, almost 3.8 million cases of tuberculosis were reported in the world in 1990, of which 49% were i...

WHO and the future of disease control programmes.

Huge increases in funding for international health over the past two decades have led to a proliferation of donors, partnerships, and health organisations. Over the same period, the global burden of non-communicable diseases has increased absolutely and relative to communicable diseases. In this changing landscape, national programmes for the control of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and negl...