Temporal trends in areas at risk for concomitant tuberculosis in a hyperendemic municipality in the Amazon region of Brazil.
Alexandre Tadashi Inomata BruceThais Zamboni BerraFelipe Lima Dos SantosYan Mathias AlvesLudmilla Leidianne Limirio SouzaAntônio Carlos Vieira RamosLuiz Henrique ArroyoJuliane de Almeida CrispimIone Carvalho PintoPedro Fredemir PalhaAline Aparecida MonroeMellina YamamuraRegina Célia FioratiAna Carolina Scarpel MoncaioDulce Maria de Oliveira GomesRicardo Alexandre ArcêncioPublished in: Infectious diseases of poverty (2020)
In Brazil, several TB-determining factors such as race/color, gender, low educational level and low income overlap in needy urban areas and communities, demonstrating that it is unlikely to reach the goals, agreed and launched with the END TB Strategy within the deadlines of international agreements, if there is no reduction in existing inequities determinants and risk of illness in the country.