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Francesca Gany, MD, MS and Jyotsna Changrani, MD, MPH

The authors are with the Center for Immigrant Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Francesca Gany, MD, MS, Center for Immigrant Health, NYU School of Medicine, 550 First Ave, OBH CD 401, New York, NY 10016 (e-mail: fg12@nyu.edu).

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As Xia writes, creative tuberculosis (TB) prevention strategies and programs are indeed necessary to reach the large numbers of medically underserved immigrants in the United States. Rates of TB among foreign-born persons in the United States continue to increase,¹ and there is a vast reservoir of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) among immigrants.² Many at-risk immigrants face linguistic, cultural, economic, legal, and structural obstacles to early TB screening and treatment.³

The community must be an integral partner in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of TB control programs for immigrants. These programs should include active advisory boards; formative research (e.g., focus groups . . . [Full Text]