Beyond goodwill and promises—urgent needs and opportunities to accelerate the fight against tuberculosis in Brazil

• Carlos Podalirio Borges de Almeida,
• Anete Trajman,
• Carole Diane Mitnick,
• Afrânio Lineu Kritski,
• Ezio Távora dos Santos-Filho

Affiliations

Carlos Podalirio Borges de Almeida

Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Ave, Room 3A05, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Faculty of Public Health, Federal University of Sul e Sudeste do Pará, Folha 31, Quadra 07, Lote Especial, Marabá, PA 68507-590, Brazil; Corresponding author. Faculty of Public Health, Federal University of Sul e Sudeste do Pará, Folha 31, Quadra 07, Lote Especial, Marabá, PA 68507-590, Brazil.

Anete Trajman

Department of Internal Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Macedo Sobrinho 74/203, Humaitá, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; McGill TB International Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Carole Diane Mitnick

Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Ave, Room 3A05, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Afrânio Lineu Kritski

Department of Internal Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Rua Professor Rodolpho Paulo Rocco, 255 - 6º Andar/Centro de Pesquisa em Tuberculose, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941913, Brazil

Ezio Távora dos Santos-Filho

Brazilian Tuberculosis Research Network, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 791 - Polo de Biotecnologia Cidade Universitária, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941904, Brazil