Feasibility of achieving the 2025 WHO global tuberculosis targets in South Africa, China, and India: a combined analysis of 11 mathematical models

• Main Authors: Dr. Rein M G J Houben, PhD (Author), Nicolas A Menzies, PhD (Author), Tom Sumner, PhD (Author), Grace H Huynh, PhD (Author), Nimalan Arinaminpathy, PhD (Author), Jeremy D Goldhaber-Fiebert, PhD (Author), Hsien-Ho Lin, PhD (Author), Chieh-Yin Wu, MS (Author), Sandip Mandal, PhD (Author), Surabhi Pandey, PhD (Author), Sze-chuan Suen, MS (Author), Eran Bendavid, MD (Author), Andrew S Azman, PhD (Author), David W Dowdy, PhD (Author), Nicolas Bacaër, PhD (Author), Allison S Rhines, PhD (Author), Prof. Marcus W Feldman, PhD (Author), Andreas Handel, PhD (Author), Prof. Christopher C Whalen, MD (Author), Stewart T Chang, PhD (Author), Bradley G Wagner, PhD (Author), Philip A Eckhoff, PhD (Author), James M Trauer, PhD (Author), Justin T Denholm, PhD (Author), Prof. Emma S McBryde, PhD (Author), Ted Cohen, DPH (Author), Prof. Joshua A Salomon, PhD (Author), Carel Pretorius, PhD (Author), Marek Lalli, MSc (Author), Jeffrey W Eaton, PhD (Author), Delia Boccia, PhD (Author), Mehran Hosseini, MD (Author), Gabriela B Gomez, PhD (Author), Suvanand Sahu, MD (Author), Colleen Daniels, MA (Author), Lucica Ditiu, MD (Author), Daniel P Chin, MD (Author), Lixia Wang, MS (Author), Vineet K Chadha, MD (Author), Kiran Rade, MPhil (Author), Puneet Dewan, MD (Author), Piotr Hippner, MSc (Author), Salome Charalambous, PhD (Author), Prof. Alison D Grant (Author), Prof. Gavin Churchyard, PhD (Author), Yogan Pillay, PhD (Author), L David Mametja, MPH (Author), Michael E Kimerling, MD (Author), Anna Vassall, PhD (Author), Richard G White, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The post-2015 End TB Strategy proposes targets of 50% reduction in tuberculosis incidence and 75% reduction in mortality from tuberculosis by 2025. We aimed to assess whether these targets are feasible in three high-burden countries with contrasting epidemiology and previous programmatic...