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A tuberculose ainda é um problema de saúde pública no Brasil. Em 2003, o controle da tuberculose foi destacado como prioridade dentre as políticas públicas de saúde. O artigo relata a resposta brasileira a esse desafio, descrevendo os principais componentes estratégicos contidos no Plano Nacional de Controle para o período 2003 a 2006. Dentre os principais resultados estão: expansão da cobertura da estratégia do Tratamento Supervisionado, aumento do percentual de cura de casos, redução do abandono ao tratamento e da taxa de incidência.

Tuberculosis remains a public health problem in Brazil. In 2003, controlling tuberculosis was highlighted as a priority among health public policies. The article reports the Brazilian response to this challenge, describing the main strategies of the National Control Plan for 2003 to 2006. Among its main results are: expansion of strategic coverage of the supervised treatment, increase in the percentage of cure, decrease in the number of patients' treatment dropout, and of the incidence rate.

Index code	Element
ti	article title
au	author
kw	article keywords
subject	subject (title words, abstract and keywords)
ab	abstract
ta	journal short title (e.g. Cad. Saúde Pública)
journal_title	journal full title (e.g. Cadernos de Saúde Pública)
la	publication language code (e.g. pt - Portuguese, es - Spanish)
type	document type
pid	publication identifier
publication_year	publication year of publication
sponsor	sponsor
aff_country	country code of the author's affiliation
aff_institution	author affiliation institution
volume	article volume
issue	article issue
elocation	elocation
doi	DOI number
issn	journal ISSN
in	SciELO colection code (e.g. scl - Brasil, col - Colômbia)
use_license	article usage license code

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