Populations under siege and in prison require investment from Syria's national tuberculosis programme

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. 2018 Jul;6(7):e34.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30182-6. Epub 2018 May 10.

Populations under siege and in prison require investment from Syria's national tuberculosis programme

Aula Abbara¹, Hussam AlKabbani², Ibrahim Al-Masri³, Zaher Sahloul⁴, Annie Sparrow⁵

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¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, UK. Electronic address: a.abbara15@imperial.ac.uk.
² Department of Health and Nutrition, Al-Ameen for Humanitarian Support, Gaziantep, Turkey.
³ O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
⁴ Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁵ Department of Population Health Sciences and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA.

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DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30182-6

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Populations under siege and in prison require investment from Syria's national tuberculosis programme

Aula Abbara et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2018 Jul.

. 2018 Jul;6(7):e34.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30182-6. Epub 2018 May 10.

Authors

Aula Abbara¹, Hussam AlKabbani², Ibrahim Al-Masri³, Zaher Sahloul⁴, Annie Sparrow⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, UK. Electronic address: a.abbara15@imperial.ac.uk.
² Department of Health and Nutrition, Al-Ameen for Humanitarian Support, Gaziantep, Turkey.
³ O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
⁴ Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁵ Department of Population Health Sciences and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA.

PMID: 29755003
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30182-6

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Sustaining a national tuberculosis control programme during civil crisis: 6 years of experience in Syria.
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