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Understanding these factors are important to enable better planning and support for the roll-out of appropriate screening interventions.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We conducted a cross-sectional survey of national TB programmes from countries reporting &gt;1000\u2009TB cases annually.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Sixty of 123 countries responded, representing 82% of the global TB burden. Only 35% of countries had a policy to screen for TB in all four key risk groups identified by WHO, 66% carried out all six WHO-recommended steps to implement screening and 39% collected all seven of the WHO-recommended data points for monitoring activity. Although 68% of countries planned to increase CXR-based screening, 90% reported at least one significant barrier to implementing this, and 20% were not aware of computer-aided detection (CAD) software technology.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Although chest X-ray and CAD use are expanding and hold promise as tools to find people with TB, many programmes do not have adequate access to them. 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