Call for urgent actions to ensure access to early diagnosis and care of tuberculosis among refugees: Statement of the European Respiratory Society and the European Region of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Affiliations

• ¹ World Health Organization Office at the European Union, Brussels, Belgium.
• ² National Institute for TB, Lung Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Vysne Hagy, Catholic University Ruzomberok, Ruzomberok, Slovakia.
• ³ Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari, Research, Medical Education and Professional Development Unit, AOU Sassari, Sassari, Italy [email protected].
• ⁴ WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri IRCCS, Tradate, Italy Public Health Consulting Group, Lugano, Switzerland.
• ⁵ WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri IRCCS, Tradate, Italy.
• ⁶ National Institute for Infectious Diseases, Rome, Italy.
• ⁷ EPI Unit, Institute of Public Health, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁸ School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan-Bicocca, UO Clinica Pneumologica, AO San Gerardo, Monza, Italy.
• ⁹ Paediatric Italian Society, Section Marche, Ancona, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
• ¹¹ Dept of Pneumology, Deaconess Hospital Rotenburg, Rotenburg (Wümme), Germany.
• ¹² Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, UCL and Tuberculosis Section, Public Health England, London, UK.
• ¹³ European Respiratory Society, EU Affairs Dept, Brussels, Belgium.
• ¹⁴ University Respiratory Medicine Unit, Evgenidio Hospital, Athens, Greece.