Measuring Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals
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• methods for strengthening routine TB surveillance; • ways to improve and standardize the analysis of surveillance data; • where surveys of infection and active disease have already been done, and should be done in future; • the comparative merits of surveys of infection and active disease (with reference to surveillance data); • how to set standards for carrying out prevalence surveys (of both infection and disease); • how new technology for diagnosis and treatment will affect measurement procedures; • the funding required to provide technical assistance to key countries, which countries these are, and possible sources of this funding; • ways to review, update and disseminate existing WHO guidelines and recommendations for assessing TB surveillance systems in countries; • methods for translating the measurements into action on TB control (e.g. dissemination, resource mobilization)
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