Publication Date
2006
291 p
This publication contains an overview of the common themes and funding resulting from five country reports, and the five reports themselves. The World Health Organization has designated all five as TB-high burden countries. The research findings show a low level of awareness about TB, and TB and HIV co-infection; about how TB is transmitted and how it can be cured; and about the link between poverty and TB; as well as low media coverage of TB and a lack of strong communication strategies for national TB programmes. It also contains country-specific recommendations
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Keywords
Cross-cutting; attitudinal barriers; Global picture; poverty; Health; diseases: communicable diseases (CD); tuberculosis; sexual health; Inclusion; exclusion and discrimination; Information & knowledge; communication; Politics government and economics; civil society; Programme/ Project; media; Rehabilitation; therapeutic (treatment)