Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970404085658.10735A-100000@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:57:27 -0600 From: Jeff Huestis <mailto:Jeff-Huestis@library.wustl.edu> Subject: The Scout Report -- March 21, 1997 (fwd) To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 05:15:55 GMT From: "Gerald R. Brown" <mailto:browner@cyberspc.mb.ca> Subject: The Scout Report -- March 21, 1997WHO Report on the Tuberculosis Epidemic 1997 http://www.who.org/programmes/gtb/reports/anrep97.htm WHO Global Tuberculosis Page [.pdf] http://www.who.org/programmes/gtb/GTB_Homepage.html
At the heart of this new World Health Organization report is the advocacy of DOTS (Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course) as a strategy for "reversing the course of a frightening global TB epidemic." It contains a listing of the benefits of DOTS, the elements of the DOTS strategy, and information on the thirteen countries (containing 75% of the world's TB cases) that "will largely determine whether the battle against TB will be won or lost." The site also contains information on how to obtain the "official paper copy" of the report. WHO's Global Tuberculosis Page contains other TB-related information, including earlier TB reports and _TB/HIV: A Clinical Manual_ (in Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format only). [JS] ======================================================= THE SCOUT REPORT 21 MARCH 1997 =================================================== ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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