Continuing basic TB control measures, as well as targeted evaluation and appropriate treatment of individuals in high-prevalence groups -- including immigrants, racial and ethnic minorities, and poor people -- "are needed to further TB elimination efforts in the United States," Navin and colleagues maintain.
Moreover, they suggest, "support for global TB prevention and control efforts in high-burden countries is ... not only a matter of humanitarian concern, but a matter of enlightened self-interest."
SOURCE: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, February 1, 2008.
