South Africa: Drug-Resistant TB a 'Public Health Emergency,' Say Activists

Civil society groups have called for government to declare drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) a public health emergency, as the DR-TB response remains underfunded.

The South African government is not doing enough to find and cure drug-resistant TB, this is according to a civil society memorandum delivered to the chair of the South African TB Conference Prof Bavesh Kana at the Durban meeting yesterday.

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