Strategies for ending tuberculosis in the South-East Asian Region: A modelling approach.

Background & Objectives: To support recent political commitments to end tuberculosis (TB) in the World Health Organization South-East Asian Region (SEAR), there is a need to understand by what measures, and with what investment, these goals could be reached. These questions were addressed by using mathematical models of TB transmission by doing the analysis on a country-by-country basis in SEAR.

Methods: A dynamical model of TB transmission was developed, in consultation with each of the 11 countries in the SEAR.