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. 2021 Jun;9(6):556-558.
doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00161-2. Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Challenges and opportunities to end tuberculosis in the COVID-19 era

Tom Wingfield  1 , Fatima Karmadwala  2 , Peter MacPherson  3 , Kerry A Millington  2 , Naomi F Walker  4 , Luis E Cuevas  5 , S Bertel Squire  4
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Challenges and opportunities to end tuberculosis in the COVID-19 era

Tom Wingfield et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2021 Jun.
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Conflict of interest statement

TW is supported by grants from the Wellcome Trust (209075/Z/17/Z and Joint Global Health Trials, MR/V004832/1), the Medical Research Council (MRC), Department for International Development, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Swedish Health Research Council. LEC is supported by grants from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trial Partnership (EDCTP, DRIA2014-309), the MRC, the TB REACH Initiative of the Stop TB Partnership (STBP/TBREACH//GSA/W5-07), the Wellcome Trust (contract pending), and the Health Protection Research Unit for Emerging and Zoonotic Infections. PM is funded by the Wellcome Trust (206575/Z/17/Z). KAM works on projects funded with UK aid from the UK Government. SBS is supported by the National Institute for Health Research Global Health Research Unit on Lung Health and TB in Africa at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (16/136/35) and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Research Programme Consortium Leaving no-one behind, transforming gendered pathways to health for TB (LIGHT PO8614). All authors declare no competing interests.

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Proportion of people with tuberculosis and their households facing catastrophic costs in 17 national surveys completed since 2015 Percentages refer to the pooled average value across all surveys, with the range representing the minimum and maximum values in the 17 countries. Reproduced with permissions from WHO's Global Tuberculosis Report 2020.
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