Universal health coverage and social support in Senegal: a comprehensive approach against tuberculosis.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched the “End TB Strategy” [1] and, in collaboration with the European Respiratory Society, launched the framework for tuberculosis (TB) elimination in low-incidence countries [2]. Both documents focus on ending the global TB epidemic by 2035, through stimulating collaborative actions at country level and increased cooperation between high and low TB-incidence countries [3–5]. The world is a global village, where the increasing cross-border and cross-continental movement of people enables infectious diseases like TB to spread across communities and countries [6, 7]. No nation is immune to the threat of infectious outbreaks [8, 9], and a significant reduction of TB burden in low-incidence countries will not be possible unless TB care and prevention is also consistently scaled-up in high TB-incidence countries [5]. This interdependency calls for joint collaborative actions involving governments, governmental and nongovernmental agencies, civil society, and communities, families and individuals.