Improving access to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis diagnostic and health services for refugees and migrants

• Published in: BMC medicine Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 221 - 4
• Main Authors: Zumla, Alimuddin, Abubakar, Ibrahim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 30.11.2018; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Analysis; Clinical outcomes; Diagnosis; Diagnostic systems; Displaced persons; Drug resistance; Epidemiology; Global Health; Globalization; Health aspects; Health Services; Health Services Accessibility; Humans; Infectious diseases; Medical care; Medical diagnosis; Migrants; Migration; multi-drug resistant; Multidrug resistance; Multidrug resistant organisms; Pandemics; Pathogens; Political aspects; Population Dynamics; Public Health; Refugees; Systematic review; Transients and Migrants; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant - drug therapy; Western Europe; Western Europe; Brazil; Norway; Europe; multi-drug resistant; Tuberculosis; refugees; migrants

By the end of 2017, an estimated 68.5 million people were displaced from their homes worldwide, of whom 25.4 million were refugees. The transmission and globalization of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis during refugee migration is a now priority issue in the public health agenda. Political and scie...