Call for urgent actions to ensure access to early diagnosis and care of tuberculosis among refugees

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1345-1347

  Dara, Masoud ^a   Solovic, Ivan ^b   Sotgiu, Giovanni ^c   D'ambrosio, Lia ^d,e   Centis, Rosella ^d   Goletti, Delia ^f   Duarte, Raquel ^g   Aliberti, Stefano ^h   De Benedictis, Fernando Maria ⁱ   Bothamley, Graham ^j   Schaberg, Tom ^k   Abubakar, Ibrahim ^l   Ward, Brian ^m   Teixeira, Vitor ^m   Gratziou, Christina ⁿ   Migliori, Giovanni Battista ^d  

^a European Union   (Belgium)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN RU OMBEROK   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d IRCCS   (Italy)

^e Public Health Consulting Group SAGL   (Switzerland)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

ⁱ Paediatric Italian Society   (Italy)

^j HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^k Deaconess Hospital Rotenburg   (Germany)

^l PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^m European Respiratory Society   (Belgium)

ⁿ Evgenidion Hospital   (Greece)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TUBERCULOSIS; EUROPE; HEALTH SERVICE; LUNG DISEASE; ORGANIZATION;

EUROPE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; ORGANIZATIONS; REFUGEES; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS SOCIETIES;

EID: 84969811625     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00377-2016     Document Type: Editorial

References (19)

1. World Health Organization. Global Tuberculosis Report 2015. WHO/HTM/TB/2015.22. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2015. Available from: Www.who.int/tb/publications/global-report/en/.
2. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2015. Stockholm, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2015. Available from: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/Publications/tuberculosis-surveillancemonitoring-Europe-2015.pdf.
3. Dara M, de Colombani P, Petrova-Benedict R, et al. Minimum package for cross-border TB control and care in the WHO European region: A Wolfheze consensus statement. Eur Respir J 2012; 40: 1081-1090.
4. Matteelli A, Lönnroth K, Mosca D, et al. Cameroon's multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment programme jeopardised by cross-border migration. Eur Respir J 2016; 47: 686-688.
5. Lönnroth K, Migliori GB, Abubakar I, et al. Towards tuberculosis elimination: An action framework for low-incidence countries. Eur Respir J 2015; 45: 928-952.
6. Getahun H, Matteelli A, Abubakar I, et al. Management of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: WHO guidelines for low tuberculosis burden countries. Eur Respir J 2015; 46: 1563-1576.
7. International Organization for Migration. International Migration Law No. 25: Glossary on Migration. 2nd Edn. Geneva, International Organization for Migration, 2011. Available from: Www.corteidh.or.cr/sitios/Observaciones/11/Anexo5.pdf.
8. Dara M, Kluge H. Roadmap to prevent and combat drug-resistant tuberculosis. Copenhagen, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, 2011. Available from: Www.euro.who.int/-data/assets/pdf-file/0014/152015/e95786.pdf.
9. International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. Recommendations to ensure the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in undocumented migrants. Paris, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2008. Available from: Www.theunion.org/get-involved/join-the-union/body/RESS-Undocumented-migrants-Statement-2008.pdf.
10. Migliori GB, Zellweger JP, Abubakar I, et al. European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care. Eur Respir J 2012; 39: 807-819.
11. van der Werf MJ, Sandgren A, D'Ambrosio L, et al. The European Union standards for tuberculosis care: do they need an update? Eur Respir J 2014; 43: 933-942.
12. Migliori GB, Sotgiu G, D'Ambrosio L, et al. TB and MDR/XDR-TB in European Union and European Economic Area countries: managed or mismanaged? Eur Respir J 2012; 39: 619-625.
13. Veen J, Migliori GB, Raviglione M, et al. Harmonisation of TB control in the WHO European region: The history of the Wolfheze Workshops. Eur Respir J 2011; 37: 950-959.
14. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, The UN Refugee Agency. Refugees/migrants emergency response - Mediterranean. Regional overview. http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/regional.php. Date last updated: February 9, 2016. Date last accessed: February 9, 2016.
15. World Health Organization Sixty-Seventh World Health Assembly. Draft gobal strategy and targets for tuberculosis prevention, care and control after 2015. A67/11. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2014. Available from: http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf-files/WHA67/A67-11-en.pdf.
16. Schneeberger Geisler S, Helbling P, Zellweger JP, et al. Screening for tuberculosis in asylum seekers: comparison of chest radiography with an interview-based system. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2010; 14: 1388-1394.
17. de Vries G, van Rest J, Meijer W, et al. Low yield of screening asylum seekers from countries with a tuberculosis incidence of <50 per 100 000 population. Eur Respir J 2016 [in press; DOI:10.1183/13993003.00099-2016].
18. World Health Organization. WHO policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities: guidelines for national programmes and other stakeholders. WHO/HTM/TB/2012.1, WHO/HIV/2012.1. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2012. Available from: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44789/1/9789241503006-eng.pdf.
19. World Health Organization. WHO policy on TB infection control in health-care facilities, congregate settings and households. WHO/HTM/TB/2009.419. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2009. Available from: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44148/1/9789241598323-eng.pdf.