Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Aug 2011
Emergency, anaesthetic and essential surgical capacity in the Gambia.
To assess the resources for essential and emergency surgical care in the Gambia. ⋯ The present survey of health-care facilities in the Gambia suggests that major gaps exist in the physical and human resources needed to carry out basic life-saving surgical interventions.
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Aug 2011
Lives saved by tuberculosis control and prospects for achieving the 2015 global target for reducing tuberculosis mortality.
To assess whether the global target of halving tuberculosis (TB) mortality between 1990 and 2015 can be achieved and to conduct the first global assessment of the lives saved by the DOTS/Stop TB Strategy of the World Health Organization (WHO). ⋯ Improvements in TB care and control since 1995 have greatly reduced TB mortality, saved millions of lives and brought within reach the global target of halving TB deaths by 2015 relative to 1990. Intensified efforts to reduce deaths among HIV+ TB cases are needed, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.