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Treatment on Trial: Tanzania’s National Tuberculosis Program, the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, and the Road to DOTS, 1977-1991 (2019)

Gradmann, Christoph (Author)

Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Volume: 74
Issue: 3
Pages: 316-343

DOI: 10.1093/jhmas/jrz029

URI: https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/article/74/3/316/5520622

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Medicine and politics Public health Tuberculosis 20th century, late Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar) World Health Organization (WHO)

Tanzania's national tuberculosis control program, created in 1977, is credited with having been the main inspiration for the World Health Organization's Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS) strategy for the control of tuberculosis, which was implemented from 1994. The text focuses on what previously took place in Tanzanian tuberculosis control between 1977 and the early 1990s. What was it that the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, which was central in the effort, assisted in creating? In what sense was the program innovative? How could a country whose health system was destroyed by a deepening economic crisis in the 1980s become a lighthouse of tuberculosis control? How much consideration was given to the rise of HIV/AIDS that occurred in parallel? The paper proposes answers to these questions, and suggests that we should see the creation of the Tanzanian program as a laboratory of nascent global health.

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