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. 2019 Mar;24(12):1900153.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.12.1900153.

Will we reach the Sustainable Development Goals target for tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area by 2030?

Hanna Merk  1 , Csaba Ködmön  1 , Marieke J van der Werf  1
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Will we reach the Sustainable Development Goals target for tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area by 2030?

Hanna Merk et al. Euro Surveill. 2019 Mar.

Abstract

We assessed progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals target for tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area using the latest tuberculosis (TB) surveillance and Eurostat data. Both the TB notification rate and the number of TB deaths were decreasing before 2015 and the TB notification rate further declined between 2015 and 2017. With the current average decline in notification rate and number of TB deaths however, the EU/EEA will not reach the targets by 2030.

Keywords: TB; public health surveillance; registries; sustainable development; tuberculosis.

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

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Tuberculosis notification rate over time and the End TB Strategy 2030 sub-target for Sustainable Development Goal 3, European Union/European Economic Area, 2008–2030
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Number of deaths due to tuberculosis over time and the End TB Strategy 2030 sub-target for Sustainable Development Goal 3, European Union/European Economic Area, 2008–2030
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