Strategic priorities for TB control in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines - comparative analysis of national TB prevalence surveys

• Main Authors: Neeraj Kak (Author), Krishnapada Chakraborty (Author), Swati Sadaphal (Author), Hala Jassim AlMossawi (Author), Marianne Calnan (Author), Begum Vikarunnessa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Philippines, Indonesia, and Bangladesh are three high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries in Asia which account for 18% of the estimated global TB incidence (1.8 million) and 15% of TB related deaths (192,000). In 2017 alone, approximately 785,000 of the incident TB cases in these...