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Global, regional, and national age-specific progress towards the 2020 milestone...
GBD 2021 Tuberculosis Collaborators; Ledesma, Jorge R.; Ma, Jianing; Zhang, Meixin; Basting, Ann V.L.; Chu, Huong Thi; Vongpradith, AvinaBackground: Global evaluations of the progress towards the WHO End TB Strategy 2020 interim milestones on mortality (35% reduction) and incidence (20% reduction) have not been age specific. We aimed to assess global, regional, and national-level burdens of and trends in tuberculosis and its risk factors across five separate age groups, from 1990 to 2021, and to report on age-specific progress between 2015 and 2...
Global, regional, and national burden of meningitis and its aetiologies, 1990 2...
Wunrow, Han Yong; Bender, Rose G; Vongpradith, Avina; Sirota, Sarah Brooke; Swetschinski, Lucien R; Novotney, Amanda; Gray, Authia P; Perdigão, JoãoBackground Although meningitis is largely preventable, it still causes hundreds of thousands of deaths globally each year. WHO set ambitious goals to reduce meningitis cases by 2030, and assessing trends in the global meningitis burden can help track progress and identify gaps in achieving these goals. Using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019, we aimed to assess...