Open Access<p>The Gap Between Global Tuberculosis Incidence and the First Milestone of the WHO End Tuberculosis Strategy: An Analysis Based on the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Database</p>
Author(s) -
Zhenyu Pan,
Jun Zhang,
Qingting Bu,
Hairong He,
Ling Bai,
Yang Jin,
Qingqing Liu,
Jun Lyu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
infection and drug resistance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.033
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1178-6973
DOI - 10.2147/idr.s248875
Subject(s) - milestone , tuberculosis , incidence (geometry) , medicine , burden of disease , demography , disease burden , disease , environmental health , geography , pathology , cartography , physics , sociology , optics
The first milestone (in 2020) of the End Tuberculosis (TB) Strategy of the World Health Organization was a 20% reduction in TB incidence rate compared with the 2015 baseline. This study aimed to determine the incidence rate of TB and how it has changed since 2015 at the global, regional, and country levels.