Tailored approaches facilitate high completion of tuberculosis infection treatment among migrants.

Tuberculosis (TB) prevention is an essential component of the End TB Strategy to work towards elimination [1]. Currently, the guidelines of the World Health Organisation recommend TB preventive treatment (TPT) in populations at risk for TB [2]. In low TB incidence countries, the foreign born are a population of interest for TB prevention as they constitute >50% of TB patients [3, 4]. Previous studies showed that TB infection (TBI) screening and TPT among specific migrant populations can be organised and executed in practice [5–9], with TPT initiation (23–97%) and completion (7–83%) proportions varying considerably between countries [10]. Identifying factors that contribute to these differences may aid the successful implementation of TPT in high TB risk migrants. We therefore compiled and analyzed data from three recent Dutch TBI screening and TPT implementation studies [5–7] among various migrant populations to assess factors facilitating TPT uptake and completion. Footnotes This manuscript has recently been accepted for publication in the European Respiratory Journal . It is published here in its accepted form prior to copyediting and typesetting by our production team. After these production processes are complete and the authors have approved the resulting proofs, the article will move to the latest issue of the ERJ online. Please open or download the PDF to view this article. Conflict of interest: Ineke Spruijt has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: Chantal Joren has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: Susan van den Hof has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: Connie Erkens has nothing to disclose.