Human Rights, Minimum Standards and Monitoring at the European and International Levels
Health and Human Rights Journal
December 2016 / Volume 18 / Number 2 / Papers, 171-182
Mapping Report - Ireland.
Mapping Report - Catalonia (Spain).
Mapping Report - Portugal
The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 7(3):289-292
2nd edition. The 2018 Roadmap incorporates an additional critical population: adolescents. Despite making up 1 in 6 of the world’s people, adolescents have been largely overlooked as global momentum to address TB has grown. Spanning the ages of 10–19 years, adolescents are both at risk of TB and... represent an important population for TB control. They often present with infectious TB and frequently have multiple contacts in congregate settings, such as schools and other educational institutions. Nevertheless, few countries capture TB data in suitably age-disaggregated ways to allow full understanding of its impact in this group and even fewer provide the adolescent-friendly services our young people need to access diagnosis and care.
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Copenhagen, Denmark, 24–25 August 2017