title: A world of cities and the end of TB.
abstract: The WHO's End TB Strategy aims to reduce TB deaths by 95% and incidence by 90% between 2015 and 2035. As the world rapidly urbanizes, more people could have access to better infrastructure and services to help combat poverty and infectious diseases, including TB. And yet large numbers of people now live in overcrowded slums, with poor access to urban health services, amplifying the burden of TB. An alignment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for health and for urban development provides an opportunity to accelerate the overall decline in infection and disease, and to create cities free of TB.
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization, Centre for Health Development, Kobe 651 0073, Japan prasada@who.int.
authors.forename: Amit
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization, Centre for Health Development, Kobe 651 0073, Japan.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization, Centre for Health Development, Kobe 651 0073, Japan.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization, Director General's Office, Geneva 1211, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dye
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003906:Developing Countries; D014943:Global Health; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000379:methods*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*
keywords: Health inequality; Sustainable Development Goals; Tuberculosis; Urbanization