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Tuberculosis and poverty: what could (and should) be done?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Benatar, Solomon Robert Upshur, Ross E. G. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | * Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Observatory, South Africa, † Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada In this month’s 2010: Year of the Lung series, readers are privileged to have the views of two groups of experts from different parts of the world who agree that extreme poverty and all its accompaniments—malnutrition, overcrowding or homelessness, addiction, and lack of access to health care—is the major driving force underlying the presence and spread of tuberculosis, including the current increases in tuberculosis caused by multiple drugr esistant and extensively drug-resistant strains. Doctors Benatar and Upshur reach this conclusion by taking an historical route from the distant past to the present and suggest ‘a new mind set’ for the future. By contrast, Doctors Keshavjee and Farmer review the more recent treatment strategies that have worked and those that have failed, and propose ways to ‘put boots on the ground’ to fi nally control this eminently treatable scourge. Tuberculosis will continue to fl ourish as long as the poverty that fosters it remains uncontrolled. Moreover, experience has taught us how to mobilize resources in ways that have proved effective in controlling drug-resistant strains in previous highburden, low-income regions. The time has come to apply these lessons. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| PubMed reference number | 20843410 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 14 |
| Issue Number | 10 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://jcb.utoronto.ca/people/publications/ijtld2010.pdf |
| Journal | The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
