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    Tuberculosis Control in Resource Limited settings: Health Systems considerations
    (WHO, 2013) Orem, Juliet N.; Nabukalu, Joy B.; Nkolo, Abel; Nanyunja, Miriam
    Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health problem globally, with higher incidence and prevalence in resource limited settings in sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia (World Health Organization, 2012). This is compounded by the high Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence in some of the resource limited countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where HIV is associated with increasing TB incidence of 5– 10% annually (De Cock & Chaisson, 1999). Globally about 8.7 million new cases of TB …