Abstract
Childhood tuberculosis-out of the shadows.
Highlights
Childhood tuberculosis (TB) has been in the shadows, with global TB control programs focused exclusively on adults with sputum smear-positive TB [1]
Key actions to address these challenges are outlined in the “Roadmap for childhood tuberculosis: towards zero deaths”, launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2013 [3]
Of the estimated 1.3 million deaths in children attributed to pneumonia in 2011, most occurred among young children living in TB endemic areas [7]
Summary
Childhood tuberculosis (TB) has been in the shadows, with global TB control programs focused exclusively on adults with sputum smear-positive TB [1]. Children are firmly embedded in the new WHO End TB Strategy [5], with calls for (i) better data to monitor progress in epidemic control, including drug-resistant TB;(ii) sputum-independent point-of-care diagnostics; (iii) Correspondence: ben.marais@health.nsw.gov.au The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and the Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia improved treatment options including child-friendly drug formulations; and (iv) new vaccines with enhanced protection against all forms of disease.
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