Extract
结核病监测是必不可少的monitoring progress towards achieving the targets set in the End TB strategy [1] and to inform stakeholders whether prevention and control efforts are effective. In the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region, TB surveillance has a long history and is, overall, complete and accurate; however, surveillance of TB–HIV co-infection is hampered by deficiencies [2]. Obtaining high quality surveillance information requires the concerted action of professionals working in the clinical and public health sectors. In addition, TB–HIV co-infection surveillance requires close collaboration between clinicians working with TB and with HIV-infected patients. In this editorial we elaborate on the rational of why surveillance of TB–HIV co-infection is important both for clinical and public health purposes, how clinicians can contribute to high quality surveillance and how they would benefit from sound surveillance.
Abstract
Clinicians and public health professionals need quality information on TB–HIV co-infection and should join forceshttp://ow.ly/Lacb30fKA3T
Footnotes
Conflict of interest: None declared.
- ReceivedAugust 28, 2017.
- AcceptedSeptember 7, 2017.
- Copyright ©ERS 2017