Tuberculosis: learning from the WHO global health emergencies

Symposium
Chairs: M. Humbert (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France), T. Geiser (Bern, Switzerland)
Aims: To explain why tuberculosis has remained a global health emergency for 27 years; to identify differences and similarities in the approach to tuberculosis and other global health emergencies

Overview of WHO global emergencies R. Duarte (Porto, Portugal)
Modelling: hot spots and targeted contacts R. Houben (London, United Kingdom)
Diagnostic tests: what are the questions and what do we know so far? M. Ruhwald (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Establishing new treatments: the role of RCTs L. Guglielmetti (Paris, France)