The Lancet
May 22, 2010  Volume 375  Number 9728  Pages 1753 – 1844
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

[This issue includes a number of Comment and Perspectives pieces on TB]

Series
Tuberculosis control and elimination 2010–50: cure, care, and social development
Knut Lönnroth, Kenneth G Castro, Jeremiah Muhwa Chakaya, Lakhbir Singh Chauhan, Katherine Floyd, Philippe Glaziou, Mario C Raviglione

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Rapid expansion of the standardised approach to tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment that is recommended by WHO allowed more than 36 million people to be cured between 1995 and 2008, averting up to 6 million deaths. Yet tuberculosis remains a severe global public health threat. There are more than 9 million new cases every year worldwide, and the incidence rate is falling at less than 1% per year. Although the overall target related to the Millennium Development Goals of halting and beginning to reverse the epidemic might have already been reached in 2004, the more important long-term elimination target set for 2050 will not be met with present strategies and instruments.