WHO and ERS set target to eliminate tuberculosis in 30 countries

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) have launched a new framework to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) in countries with low levels of the disease at the ERS’ International Congress in Munich. >More than 30 countries and territories report less than 100 TB cases per million population. Representatives from these countries signed up to the framework and its implementation at a meeting in July, co-hosted by WHO and the ERS in Rome in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Health. The framework outlines an initial “pre-elimination” phase, aiming to have fewer than 10 new TB cases per