RESUMEN

This paper was presented in place of one that was to have been given by the late Professor A.G. Khomenko, Director of the Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Moscow. Professor Khomenko had a long and distinguished career and with his death Russia has lost one of its finest and most active workers in the fight against TB.

Asunto(s)

Control de Enfermedades Transmisibles/métodos , Tuberculosis/prevención & control , Infecciones Oportunistas Relacionadas con el SIDA/epidemiología , Infecciones Oportunistas Relacionadas con el SIDA/prevención & control , Antituberculosos/uso terapéutico , Control de Enfermedades Transmisibles/tendencias , Salud Global , Humanos , Evaluación de Necesidades , Prisiones/estadística & datos numéricos , Federación de Rusia/epidemiología , Tuberculosis/epidemiología , Organización Mundial de la Salud