The impact of COVID-19 and the restoration of tuberculosis services in the Western Pacific Region

Chen-Yuan Chiang; Tauhid Islam; Caihong Xu; Thilaka Chinnayah; Anna Marie Celina Garfin; Kalpeshsinh Rahevar; Mario Raviglione

doi:10.1183/13993003.03054-2020

The impact of COVID-19 and the restoration of tuberculosis services in the Western Pacific Region

Eur Respir J. 2020 Oct 22;56(4):2003054. doi: 10.1183/13993003.03054-2020. Print 2020 Oct.

Authors

Chen-Yuan Chiang¹, Tauhid Islam², Caihong Xu³, Thilaka Chinnayah⁴, Anna Marie Celina Garfin⁵, Kalpeshsinh Rahevar², Mario Raviglione⁶

Affiliations

¹ International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France.
² End TB and Leprosy Unit, Division of Programmes for Disease Control, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines.
³ National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
⁴ Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Sector, Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health, Putrajaya, Malaysia.
⁵ Department of Health, Disease Prevention and Control Bureau, Manila, Philippines.
⁶ Centre for Multidisciplinary Research in Health Science (MACH), University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

Abstract

While COVID-19 has imposed great challenges to national tuberculosis programmes, it has also created opportunities to develop innovative strategies to ensure continuity of TB services and ultimately to strengthen TB care, prevention and control https://bit.ly/3bHDQx0

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections*
Humans
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral*
SARS-CoV-2
Tuberculosis* / drug therapy
Tuberculosis* / epidemiology

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International