title: Dr Mario Raviglione, director of the Stop TB Department World Health Organization. Interview by Christo Hall.
abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) is a very global disease; there are over 9 million new incidences of TB every year with the vast majority of cases emerging in the developing world. As one of three major diseases associated with poverty it affects the areas where poverty is most  prevalent, notably Asia and Africa. While the incidence rate has been slowly declining in the developed world it continues to pose a major health threat to even the most developed nations. To demonstrate the global, and persistent, nature of TB we asked Dr Mario Raviglione, Director of the  World Health Organization's Stop TB Department to provide an analysis on the current TB situation in the United Kingdom and comment on what measures should be taken to alleviate the issue of TB in one of the world's richest countries.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Raviglione
mesh_terms: D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D011173:Portraits as Topic; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D032581:Tuberculosis Vaccines; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology; D014944:World Health Organization
chemical_list: D000995:Antitubercular Agents; D032581:Tuberculosis Vaccines