Abstract
We assessed progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals target for tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area using the latest tuberculosis (TB) surveillance and Eurostat data. Both the TB notification rate and the number of TB deaths were decreasing before 2015 and the TB notification rate further declined between 2015 and 2017. With the current average decline in notification rate and number of TB deaths however, the EU/EEA will not reach the targets by 2030.
Highlights
We used data obtained from the European tuberculosis surveillance network under the joint coordination of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe [3] and data from Eurostat [4] for the years 2008–17
The TB notification rates were used as proxy for TB incidence and reported TB deaths as a proxy for actual number of deaths due to TB
The targets for TB incidence and the number of TB deaths set in the End TB Strategy translate to 2.4 TB cases per 100,000 population and 444 TB deaths for the EU/EEA in 2030
Summary
Will we reach the Sustainable Development Goals target for tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area by 2030?. We assessed progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals target for tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area using the latest tuberculosis (TB) surveillance and Eurostat data. Both the TB notification rate and the number of TB deaths were decreasing before 2015 and the TB notification rate further declined between 2015 and 2017.
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