Lucica Ditiu

TL;DR: The Commission recommends five priority investments to achieve a tuberculosis-free world within a generation, which answer the question of how countries with high-burden tuberculosis and their development partners should target their future investments.

TL;DR: Major reductions in tuberculosis burden seem possible with current interventions, however, additional interventions, adapted to country-specific tuberculosis epidemiology and health systems, are needed to reach the post-2015 End TB Strategy targets at country level.

TL;DR: The current dilemmas, unanswered questions, operational issues, challenges, and priority needs for global drug resistance screening and surveillance, improved treatment regimens, and management of outcomes and prevention of DR tuberculosis are discussed.

TL;DR: In general, expansion of tuberculosis services substantially reduced patient-incurred costs and, in India and China, produced net cost savings for most interventions under a societal perspective, and most intervention approaches seemed highly cost-effective.