World Health Organization : World Health Forum, 1989 ; Volume 10 No. 1, Year 1989, Pages 116-122: Tuberculosis ; A Six-Month Cure

By Pierre Chaulet

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Title:	World Health Organization : World Health Forum, 1989 ; Volume 10 No. 1, Year 1989, Pages 116-122: Tuberculosis ; A Six-Month Cure
Author:	Pierre Chaulet
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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The best strategy for prevention of tuberculosis is to cure patients who have it. During the last decade a quiet revolution has taken place in treatment methods: short-term chemotherapy regimens have gradually won general acceptance in national antituberculosis programmes, both in high-prevalence developing countries as different as Algeria, Brazil, and Singapore and in low-prevalence industrial countries. The reason for this is very simple: these regimens are highly effective and reliable, and enable us to attain the objective of cure with the minimum of constraints either for patients or for health personnel (I).

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