Tuberculosis cases in Russia doubled from 1991 to 2000, when the incidence reached 90 per 100,000; and Russian TB mortality rates are the highest in Europe. Implementation of WHO-recommended DOTS strategy is in the preliminary stages. The epidemiological data are presented as is the implementation strategy for stabilizing the epidemic.
This paper was presented in place of one that was to have been given by the late Professor A.G. Khomenko, Director of the Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Moscow. Professor Khomenko had a long and distinguished career and with his death Russia has lost one of its finest and most active workers in the fight against TB.
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