TY - JOUR
T1 - Data for action: collection and use of local data to end tuberculosis
AU - Theron, Grant
AU - Jenkins, Helen E.
AU - Cobelens, Frank
AU - Abubakar, Ibrahim
AU - Khan, Aamir J.
AU - Cohen, Ted
AU - Dowdy, David W.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Accelerating progress in the fight against tuberculosis will require a drastic shift from a strategy focused on control to one focused on elimination. Successful disease elimination campaigns are characterised by locally tailored responses that are informed by appropriate data. To develop such a response to tuberculosis, we suggest a three-step process that includes improved collection and use of existing programmatic data, collection of additional data (eg, geographic information, drug resistance, and risk factors) to inform tailored responses, and targeted collection of novel data (eg, sequencing data, targeted surveys, and contact investigations) to improve understanding of tuberculosis transmission dynamics. Development of a locally targeted response for tuberculosis will require substantial investment to reconfigure existing systems, coupled with additional empirical data to evaluate the effectiveness of specific approaches. Without adoption of an elimination strategy that uses local data to target hotspots of transmission, ambitious targets to end tuberculosis will almost certainly remain unmet
AB - Accelerating progress in the fight against tuberculosis will require a drastic shift from a strategy focused on control to one focused on elimination. Successful disease elimination campaigns are characterised by locally tailored responses that are informed by appropriate data. To develop such a response to tuberculosis, we suggest a three-step process that includes improved collection and use of existing programmatic data, collection of additional data (eg, geographic information, drug resistance, and risk factors) to inform tailored responses, and targeted collection of novel data (eg, sequencing data, targeted surveys, and contact investigations) to improve understanding of tuberculosis transmission dynamics. Development of a locally targeted response for tuberculosis will require substantial investment to reconfigure existing systems, coupled with additional empirical data to evaluate the effectiveness of specific approaches. Without adoption of an elimination strategy that uses local data to target hotspots of transmission, ambitious targets to end tuberculosis will almost certainly remain unmet
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00321-9
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00321-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 26515676
SN - 0140-6736
VL - 386
SP - 2324
EP - 2333
JO - Lancet
JF - Lancet
IS - 10010
ER -