Global Tuberculosis Report -- 2012.pdf
Global Tuberculosis Report -- 2012.pdf
Global Tuberculosis Report -- 2012.pdf
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Abbreviations<br />
AFB<br />
AFR<br />
AIDS<br />
AMR<br />
ARI<br />
ART<br />
BCG<br />
BRICS<br />
CDR<br />
CPT<br />
CBC<br />
DOT<br />
DOTS<br />
DR-TB<br />
DRS<br />
DST<br />
ECDC<br />
EMR<br />
EQA<br />
ERR<br />
EU<br />
EUR<br />
FIND<br />
GDP<br />
GLI<br />
acid-fast bacilli<br />
WHO African Region<br />
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome<br />
WHO Region of the Americas<br />
annual risk of infection<br />
antiretroviral therapy<br />
Bacille-Calmette-Guérin<br />
Brazil, Russian Federation, India,<br />
China, South Africa<br />
case detection rate<br />
co-trimoxazole preventive therapy<br />
community-based TB care<br />
directly observed treatment<br />
the basic package that underpins the<br />
Stop TB Strategy<br />
drug-resistant tuberculosis<br />
drug resistance surveillance or survey<br />
drug susceptibility testing<br />
European Centre for Disease Prevention<br />
and Control<br />
WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region<br />
External quality assurance<br />
Electronic recording and reporting<br />
European Union<br />
WHO European Region<br />
Foundation for Innovative New<br />
Diagnostics<br />
gross domestic product<br />
<strong>Global</strong> Laboratory Initiative<br />
<strong>Global</strong> Fund The <strong>Global</strong> Fund to fight AIDS,<br />
<strong>Tuberculosis</strong> and Malaria<br />
<strong>Global</strong> Plan <strong>Global</strong> Plan to Stop TB, 2011–2015<br />
GNI gross national income<br />
HBC high-burden country of which there are<br />
22 that account for approximately 80%<br />
of all new TB cases arising each year<br />
HIV human immunodeficiency virus<br />
ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases<br />
(tenth revision)<br />
IGRA<br />
IPT<br />
IRR<br />
LED<br />
LPA<br />
MDG<br />
MDR-TB<br />
NGO<br />
NTP<br />
PEPFAR<br />
POC<br />
PPM<br />
SEAR<br />
SRL<br />
TB<br />
TB-TEAM<br />
TST<br />
UNAIDS<br />
UNITAID<br />
USAID<br />
VR<br />
WHA<br />
WHO<br />
WPR<br />
XDR-TB<br />
ZN<br />
interferon-gamma release assay<br />
isoniazid preventive therapy<br />
incidence rate ratio<br />
Light-emitting diode<br />
Line-probe assay<br />
Millennium Development Goal<br />
multidrug-resistant tuberculosis<br />
(resistance to, at least, isoniazid and<br />
rifampicin)<br />
nongovernmental organization<br />
national tuberculosis control programme<br />
or equivalent<br />
US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS<br />
Relief<br />
point-of-care<br />
Public–Private Mix<br />
WHO South-East Asia Region<br />
supranational reference laboratory<br />
tuberculosis<br />
<strong>Tuberculosis</strong> Technical Assistance<br />
Mechanism<br />
tuberculin skin test<br />
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/<br />
AIDS<br />
international facility for the purchase of<br />
diagnostics and drugs for diagnosis and<br />
treatment of HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB<br />
United States Agency for International<br />
Development<br />
Vital registration<br />
World Health Assembly<br />
World Health Organization<br />
WHO Western Pacific Region<br />
Extensively drug-resistant TB, defined<br />
as MDR-TB plus resistance to a<br />
fluoroquinolone and at least one of three<br />
injectable second-line drugs (amikacin,<br />
kanamycin or capreomycin)<br />
Ziehl Neelsen<br />
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