TY - JOUR T1 - Roadmap for tuberculosis elimination in Latin American and Caribbean countries: a strategic alliance JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 1282 LP - 1287 DO - 10.1183/13993003.01549-2016 VL - 48 IS - 5 AU - Adrian Rendon AU - Zhenia Fuentes AU - Carlos A. Torres-Duque AU - Mirtha del Granado AU - Jorge Victoria AU - Raquel Duarte AU - Giovanni Battista Migliori Y1 - 2016/11/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/48/5/1282.abstract N2 - On July 4–5, 2016, representatives of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Tórax (ALAT), the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and of the Panamerican Health Organization (PAHO) met in Santiago de Chile to attend the VIII Regional Meeting of American Low Tuberculosis Incidence Countries. This meeting took place in connection with the 2016 ALAT Congress. Among the meeting attendees there were managers of national tuberculosis (TB) programmes and pulmonologists belonging to the ALAT Tuberculosis Dept.Joint ALAT/ERS/PAHO strategic alliance develops roadmap for TB elimination in Latin American and Caribbean countries http://ow.ly/RbHH3034gY6The Authors with to thank Lia D'Ambrosio and Rosella Centis (WHO Collaborating Centre for TB and Lung Disease, Tradate, Italy) for their technical support in finalising the manuscript. In addition, the authors thank the participants of first meeting of the GILA-TB as part of the ERS/ALAT LATSINTB Project (Adriana Maria Montoya Salazar, Colombia; Alfredo Cruz Lagunas, Mexico; Ana Putruelle, Argentina; Carlos Awad García, Colombia; Carlos Peña Mantinetti, Chile; Cartos Torres, Colombia; Domingo Palmero, Argentina; Edilberto Gonzalez Ochoa, Cuba; Edwin Herrera Flores, Peru; Gabriela Manonelles, Argentina; Giovanni Battista Migliori, Italy; Joaquin Zúñiga, Mexico; Kareen Suarez, Chile; Adrian Rendon, Mexico; Marcela Muñoz, Mexico; Margareth Dalcolmo, Brazil; Mario Chavez, Chile; Miguel Angel Salazar, Mexico; Mónica Sanchez, Chile; Nelly Cavieres, Chile; Raquel Duarte, Portugal; Roberto Accinelli Tanaka, Lima; Sandra Ariza Matiz, Colombia; Selene Manga, Peru; Tania Herrera, Chile; Tulio Torres, Guatemala; and Zhenia Fuentes, Venezuela) and the VIII Reunión Regional de Países de Baja Incidencia de Tuberculosis, Las Americas (Adrian Rendon, México; Adriana Maria Montoya Salazar, Colombia; Alvaro Díaz, Chile; Alvaro Yañez del Villar, Chile; Carlos Awad García, Colombia; Carlos A. Torres Duque, Colombia; Cecilia Coitinho Azevedo, Uruguay; Chris Archibald, Canada; Edilberto González Ochoa, Cuba; Ernesto Moreno Naranjo, Colombia; Fabiola Arias, Chile; Getahun Gebre Haileyesus, Switzerland; Giovanni Battista Migliori, Italy; Gonzalo Solis, Chile; Jorge Victoria, Panama; Jorge Rodríguez De Marco, Uruguay; José Raúl de Armas Fernández, Cuba; Karla Kohan, Chile; Marcela Moreno Lunes, Chile; Marcelo Vila, Argentina; Marcos Gallardo, Chile; Mariela Contrera, Uruguay; Martha Angelica García Avilés, México; Miguel Salazar, Mexico; Mirtha Del Granado, USA; Paula Lasserra Echenique, Uruguay; Raquel Duarte Portugal; Raúl Diaz Rodríguez, Cuba; Roberto Del Aguila, Chile; Rosario Lepe Lepe, Chile; Sandra Ariza Matiz, Colombia; Tania Herrera, Chile; Zeidy Mata Azofeifa, Costa Rica; Zhenia Fuentes, Venezuela; and Zulema Torres Gaete, Chile). ER -