Feasibility of achieving the 2025 WHO global tuberculosis targets in South Africa, China, and India: a combined analysis of 11 mathematical models

M G J Houben, Rein; A. Menzies, Nicolas; Sumner, Tom; Huynh, Grace; Arinaminpathy, Nimalan; D. Goldhaber‐Fiebert, Jeremy; Lin, Hsien-Ho; Wu, Chieh-Yin; Mandal, Sandip; Pandey, Surabhi; Suen, Sze-chuan; Bendavid, Eran; S. Azman, Andrew; W. Dowdy, David; Bacaër, Nicolas; S. Rhines, Allison; W. Feldman, Marcus; Handel, Andreas; C. Whalen, Christopher; T. Chang, Stewart; G. Wagner, Bradley; A. Eckhoff, Philip; M. Trauer, James; T. Denholm, Justin; S. McBryde, Emma; Cohen, Ted; A. Salomon, Joshua; Pretorius, Carel; Lalli, Marek; W. Eaton, Jeffrey; Boccia, Delia; Hosseini, Mehran; B. Gomez, Gabriela; Sahu, Suvanand; Daniels, Colleen; Diţiu, Lucica; P. Chin, Daniel; Wang, Lixia; K. Chadha, V.; Rade, Kiran; Dewan, Puneet; Hippner, Piotr; Charalambous, Salome; D. Grant, Alison; Churchyard, Gavin; Pillay, Yogan; D Mametja, L; E. Kimerling, Michael; Vassall, Anna; G. White, Richard

doi:10.1016/s2214-109x(16)30199-1

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Feasibility of achieving the 2025 WHO global tuberculosis targets in South Africa, China, and India: a combined analysis of 11 mathematical models

Published in The Lancet Global Health • Oct 10, 2016

Authors:

Rein M G J Houben

Nicolas A. Menzies

Tom Sumner

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The post-2015 End TB Strategy proposes targets of 50% reduction in tuberculosis incidence and 75% reduction in mortality from tuberculosis by 2025. We aimed to assess whether these targets are feasible in three high-burden countries with contrasting epidemiology and previous programmatic...

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China

Tuberculosis

Geography

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