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Published on: April 5, 2017
[Efficiency of international tuberculosis control programmes in the Tomsk Region]
Abstract:
Since 1994, international tuberculosis control programmes in the have been implemented in the Tomsk Region by using advanced experience in Russian phthisiology and foreign medicine by attracting many specialists of the British "Merlin" agency (London), New York Health Institute (USA). A program is financed from different funds of other countries (KNOW HOW, J. Soros, EU, British government, WHO) and from regional sources. The phthisiological doctrine has been changed, all tuberculosis control services in the region has been substantially restructured and integrated. A new concept of tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment has been developed. DOTS and DOTS-PLUS which form the present strategy of WHO to control this disease throughout the world have been developed.
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