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Africa: Highest-Ever Levels of Multi-Drug-Resistant TB Revealed
Guardian Network, 9 February 2012
Hot on the heels of a major study showing malaria deaths are twice what everybody thought comes a WHO study showing the highest levels yet of drug-resistant TB Read more »
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Africa: TB Deaths Reach New Lows, World Health Organization Says
State Department, 12 October 2011
The number of deaths from tuberculosis and the number of new cases of this infectious disease are both on the decline, according to data released by the World Health Organization… Read more »
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Africa: WHO Warns of Consequences of Underfunding TB
WHO, 11 October 2011
WHO reports for the first time that the number of people falling ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year is declining. Read more »
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Africa: High Drug Prices Hamper Drug-Resistant TB Treatment
IPS, 17 June 2011
Access to treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) remains compromised, especially in developing countries, because too few pharmaceutical companies manufacture… Read more »
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Africa: World at Risk of Making Disease - Resistant Drugs
The Star, 11 April 2011
The world might lose treatments of diseases like tuberculosis and syphilis if authorities do not stop rising cases of drug resistance, the World Health Organisation has warned. Read more »