Dear Colleagues,

Despite being curable, tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health emergency and one of the biggest infectious disease killers globally. Out of all TB cases globally, 62% occur in the South East Asia and Western Pacific regions. There is a need for bold action and accelerated change if the sustainable development goal (SDG) targets of 90% reduction in TB deaths and 80% reduction in TB incidence are to be met by 2030. However, barriers to TB elimination are considerable, with 30% of people with TB globally not diagnosed, only one third with multidrug-resistant TB accessing appropriate treatment, and anywhere between 27% and 83% of people with tuberculosis encountering catastrophic costs. Currently, most high-burden countries and the world as a whole are not on course to reach the targets. There is the need for new tools and better evidence on how to achieve TB elimination.

While the challenges for TB elimination remain large, there is much cause for hope with improved all oral MDR-TB treatments, a richer pipeline of new TB diagnostics and vaccines, and shorter latent TB infection treatment regimens. The lancet series “How to Eliminate Tuberculosis” outlined an evidence-based approach to ending TB into 4 key areas: rethinking data management to target hotspots, active case finding and prompt treatment, treating latent TB infection, and employing a biosocial approach throughout. This Special Issue “Innovation and evidence for achieving TB Elimination in the Asia–Pacific Region” invites submissions within these four broad areas with relevance to the Asia–Pacific region. A broad range of research methodologies will be accepted, including qualitative, epidemiology, operational, implementation, and policy research, as well as other relevant approaches.

Dr. Philipp du Cros
Dr Hamidah Hussain
Dr. Kerri Viney
Guest Editors

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• Tuberculosis
• Elimination
• Active case finding
• TB infection/latent TB
• Epidemiology
• Drug-resistant TB

• Tuberculosis Elimination in the Asia-Pacific in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (13 articles)