Barriers to sustainable tuberculosis control in the Russian Federation health system

• Main Authors: R.A. Atun (Author), Y.A. Samyshkin (Author), F. Drobniewski (Author), N.M. Skuratova (Author), G. Gusarova (Author), S.I. Kuznetsov (Author), I.M. Fedorin (Author), R.J. Coker (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The Russian Federation has the eleventh highest tuberculosis burden in the world in terms of the total estimated number of new cases that occur each year. In 2003, 26% of the population was covered by the internationally recommended control strategy known as directly observed treatment (DOT) compare...