title: [Since little time remained to 2015; how far Turkey has achieved to reach the tuberculosis targets?].
abstract: Tuberculosis still continues to be a globally major health problem. The one of the priorities of Millennium Development Goals, which was adopted by "United Nations Summit" in 2000 to overcome the obstacles in the development of countries is tuberculosis. The targets about the tuberculosis are the outcome indicators which are used to evaluate of effectiveness in tuberculosis's control. By the effective activities of the national tuberculosis control program; the "Millennium Development Goals" and "Stop TB Strategy Goals" have been completely achieved in Turkey before 2015.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chest Diseases, Ankara Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. mhturkkani@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Mustafa H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Turkkani
authors.forename: Zeki
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yildirim
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology