The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) have developed 21 patient-centred standards to guide clinicians and public health workers to ensure optimal diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis (TB). The second edition of the European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ESTC) is now available. It has been updated to […]
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The UN European coalition on health is a coordination mechanism focusing on the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 – to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages – in the pan-European Region, and of the health-related targets present in other SDGs. At its initial meeting in 2016 the coalition
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WHO has published a global TB report every year since 1997. The main aim of the report is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic, and of progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease at global, regional and country levels. This is done in the context of recommended global
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New data released by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and WHO/Europe show that an estimated 340,000 Europeans had tuberculosis (TB) in 2014, corresponding to a rate of 37 cases per 100,000 people. Although new TB cases decreased by 4.3{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} on average between 2010 and 2014, high rates of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB
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In this compendium, the WHO Regional Office for Europe has collected good examples of the prevention, control and care of TB. They want countries to be able to share their knowledge and experience of using the health-system approach to tackle health problems. This report contains 45 examples of good practice in strengthening health systems for
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An estimated 360,000 Europeans developed tuberculosis (TB) in 2013, or around 1000 people a day. According to new data published by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the WHO Regional Office for Europe, this figure was about 6{ddf8d179d1bf712bb2a88ff2ad95ebdf63eaa5463c845d2f093b25848387ba96} lower than in 2012, continuing a sustained decline over the last decade across
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