Historia del Programa de Control de la Tuberculosis de Chile

Abstract

A book on the history of the Program of Control of Tuberculosis in Chile, recently published by the Ministry of Health as a landmark of the Public Health of the country, is commented. His author, the distinguished historian Marcelo López Campillay goes over the different stages of the tuberculosis epidemic in Chile and the successive attempts to control it. First with a modern control program and later with a program aimed at the elimination of tuberculosis as a public health problem, with a target of less than 5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants by 2020. The successes and difficulties of the program through its different stages are explained by the testimonies from its main protagonists and conductors. Complementary contributions about this exciting history are given.