It is health that is real wealth & not pieces of gold & silver.
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Despite the recent progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goal target to halt and reverse the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by 2015, the global burden of TB remains significant. In 2011, there were an estimated 8.7 million new cases of TB (13% co-infected with HIV) and 1.4 million people died from TB. Almost one million of these deaths were among HIV-negative individuals and 430,000 among people who were HIV-positive. TB is one of the top killers of women, with 300,000 deaths among HIV-negative and 200,000 deaths in HIV-positive women. In addition, progress in responding to multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) remains slow. While the number of cases of MDR-TB notified in the 27 high MDR-TB burden countries is increasing and reached almost 60,000 worldwide in 2011, this number only reflects one in five (19%) of the notified TB patients estimated to have MDR-TB. In the two countries with the largest number of cases, India and China, the figure is less than one in ten1. Clearly, much work needs to be done and it was Einstein who once said ‘The problems that exist in the world cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.’ Not busy work, but smart work, is needed to create a solution. In public health, one solution could be a systems approach and integrated and decentralized laboratory services.
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Authors: Akos Somoskovi, Sevim Ahmedov, Max Salfinger
Institutions: University of Zurich, National Jewish Health
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1880475106