British Medical Journal
6 August 2011 Volume 343, Issue 7818
http://www.bmj.com/content/current

Editor’s Choice
Don’t forget tuberculosis
Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ

Extract
Not so long ago tuberculosis was seen as an “old” disease, one that had been conquered in large parts of the world and might even be eliminated. No longer. HIV/AIDS, poverty, travel, and migration have seen tuberculosis re-emerge as a global pandemic. It now affects a third of the world’s population, and although there is optimism about reaching the millennium development goal target—that global incidence should be falling by 2015, no country or region has elimination realistically in its sights.

Analysis
Tuberculosis in the UK—time to regain control
Ibrahim Abubakar, Marc Lipman, Charlotte Anderson, Peter Davies, Alimuddin Zumla
BMJ 2011;343:doi:10.1136/bmj.d4281 (Published 31 July 2011)