Tuberculosis elimination: a dream or a reality? The case of Oman

Yaquobi, Fatma Al; Al-Abri, Seif; Al-Abri, Bader; Al-Abaidani, Idris; Al-Jardani, Amina; D’Ambrosio, Lia; Centis, Rosella; Matteelli, Alberto; Manissero, Davide; Migliori, Giovanni Battista

doi:10.1183/13993003.02027-2017

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“…2) Development of consistent tuberculosis control and elimination strategies and policies according to the principles described in the End TB Strategy [2,20,22] and Tuberculosis Action Plan for WHO European Region 2016-2020 [21], taking into account best practices in and outside Europe [124,125].…”

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ERS/ECDC Statement: European Union standards for tuberculosis care, 2017 update

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The International Standards for Tuberculosis Care define the essential level of care for managing patients who have or are presumed to have tuberculosis, or are at increased risk of developing the disease. The resources and capacity in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area permit higher standards of care to secure quality and timely TB diagnosis, prevention and treatment. On this basis, the European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ESTC) were published in 2012 as standards specifically tailored to the EU setting. Since the publication of the ESTC, new scientific evidence has become available and, therefore, the standards were reviewed and updated.A panel of international experts, led by a writing group from the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), updated the ESTC on the basis of new published evidence. The underlying principles of these patient-centred standards remain unchanged. The second edition of the ESTC includes 21 standards in the areas of diagnosis, treatment, HIV and comorbidities, and public health and prevention.The ESTC target clinicians and public health workers, provide an easy-to-use resource and act as a guide through all the required activities to ensure optimal diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB.

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“…Oman represents the second country to be formally evaluated under the TB elimination perspective [97]. Located among the Arabian Gulf Countries, the country (and the whole region) have a TB epidemiology within the pre-elimination phase, with low incidence of TB among natives and the majority of cases occurring among foreign-born people (representing about half of the total population: 1 986 226 out of 4 414 051 in 2016).…”

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“…In particular, more efforts will be performed to define priority groups for LTBI diagnosis and treatment (e.g. foreign born beyond contacts) [97].…”

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Tuberculosis elimination: where are we now?

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Tuberculosis (TB) still represents a major public health issue in spite of the significant impact of the efforts made by the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners to improve its control. In 2014 WHO launched a new global strategy (End TB) with a vision of a world free of TB, and a 2035 goal of TB elimination (defined as less than one incident case per million). The aim of this article is to summarise the theoretical bases of the End TB Strategy and to analyse progresses and persistent obstacles on the way to TB elimination.The evolution of the WHO recommended strategies of TB control (Directly Observed Therapy, Short Course (DOTS), Stop TB and End TB) are described and the concept of TB elimination is discussed. Furthermore, the eight core activities recently proposed by WHO as the milestones to achieve TB elimination are discussed in detail. Finally, the recently published experiences of Cyprus and Oman on their way towards TB elimination are described, together with the regional experience of Latin America.New prevention, diagnostic and treatment tools are also necessary to increase the speed of the present TB incidence decline.

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“…The multidimensional interventions of the End TB Strategy and their potential impact on the TB epidemic are summarised in figure 1, and apply to both high and low TB and HIV burden settings. In countries at low TB incidence (<10 cases per 100 000 population), optimal application of the principles of the strategy should allow approach of the pre-elimination threshold (<10 TB cases per million population) and hopefully also the TB elimination one (<1 TB case per million) by 2035 [4][5][6][7].…”

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