International Journal of Infectious Diseases
May 2016 Volume 46, p1-126
http://www.ijidonline.com/current

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Original Reports
Taking forward the World TB Day 2016 theme ‘Unite to End Tuberculosis’ for the WHO Africa Region
Francine Ntoumi, Pontiano Kaleebu, Eusebio Macete, Sayoki Mfinanga, Jeremiah Chakaya, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Matthew Bates, Peter Mwaba, Markus Maeurer, Eskild Petersen, Alimuddin Zumla
p34–37
Published online: March 8 2016
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Tuberculosis (TB) has remained a global emergency ever since it was declared as such by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993.1 The theme designated for this year’s World TB Day, March 24, 2016, is ‘Unite to End TB’.2 World TB Day is held to commemorate the day in 1882 when Professor Robert Koch announced his ground-breaking discovery of the cause of TB, the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis.3 At the time of Koch’s announcement in Berlin, TB was widespread and rampaging through Europe and the Americas, causing the death of one out of every seven people.