IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/een/devpol/1222.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Tuberculosis Control in the Torres Strait Region: What's Needed and Why? Report Following a Public Forum

Author

Listed:
  • Kamalini Lokuge
  • Kebei Salee Koeget
  • Anastasios Konstantinos

Abstract

Recently, there has been increasing focus and concern regarding transmission of tuberculosis (TB) in the Papua New Guinea (PNG)-Australia cross-border region. In particular, there is growing recognition that preventing the emergence and spread of drug resistant TB is of vital importance to both PNG and Australia. As a result, significant resources have and will be invested in addressing this issue. There exists an opportunity not only to achieve strong TB programs in the border region of PNG, but to show the way for the rest of PNG and the Pacific. However, at the same time, there are real threats to achieving effective programs. Unless these threats are addressed effectively, the net outcome of current and future programs is likely to be the rapid emergence and spread of drug resistant TB. This paper discusses the way forward for sustainable, long-term tuberculosis control in the region.

Suggested Citation

  • Kamalini Lokuge & Kebei Salee Koeget & Anastasios Konstantinos, 2012. "Tuberculosis Control in the Torres Strait Region: What's Needed and Why? Report Following a Public Forum," Development Policy Centre Discussion Papers 1222, Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
    • Handle: RePEc:een:devpol:1222
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2126915
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Hoa‐Thi‐Minh Nguyen & Tom Kompas & Roslyn I. Hickson, 2014. "Aid and the Control of Tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea: Is Australia's Assistance Cost‐Effective?," Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 1(2), pages 364-378, May.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • H51 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Health
    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:een:devpol:1222. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Macarena Rojas (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/asanuau.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.