HIV control approaches may not work for TB: lessons from South Africa and Zambia - Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

We expected to find that screening everybody for TB would identify individuals not yet diagnosed, and treating them quickly would reduce the prevalence of TB in the community.

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most deadly infectious diseases. Around 9.9 million people around the world fell ill with the disease in 2020 and an estimated 1.5 million people died. The advent of … [+4719 chars]

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