Reducing the prevalence of TB in a highly endemic setting by community-wide active case finding: "turning off the tap"

2010年期间，有880万人罹患结核病，145万人死于该病。这个项目将在越南进行，越南是我们地区结核病发病率特别高的国家之一。在这个项目中，我们将测试一种旧干预措施的新形式：社区范围的结核病筛查，不使用x光，而是通过检测痰液。如果该项目取得成功，它有可能导致朝着消除结核病这一全球健康问题迈出巨大的一步。

During 2010, 8.8 million people developed TB and 1.45 million people died due to the disease. In this project, which will be conducted in Vietnam, one of the countries in our region with a particularly high prevalence of TB, we will test a new form of an old intervention: community-wide screening for TB, not with x-rays but by testing sputum. If the project is successful it has the potential to lead to a giant leap forward towards the elimination of TB as a global health problem.