Michael D Owens, Jason Rice
The Angolan Pandemic Rapid Response Team: An Assessment, Improvement, and Development Analysis of the First Self-sufficient African National Response Team Curriculum
Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
recent data global burden disease reflect major demographic lifestyle changes leading rise noncommunicable diseases countries high levels tuberculosis face large comorbidity burden noncommunicable communicable diseases traditional diseasespecific approaches typically fail recognise common features potential synergies integration care management control noncommunicable communicable diseases resourcelimited countries need tackle broader range overlapping comorbid diseases growing tuberculosis hivaids persist global emergencies lethal interaction tuberculosis hiv coinfection adults children pregnant women subsaharan africa exemplifies need well integrated approaches disease management control furthermore links diabetes mellitus smoking alcoholism chronic lung diseases cancer immunosuppressive treatment malnutrition tuberculosis well recognised focus interactions synergies challenges integration tuberculosis care management strategies noncommunicable communicable diseases without eroding functionality existing national programmes tuberculosis need sustained increased funding initiatives greater ever requires increased political funder commitment