Action Is Needed To Prevent The Spread Of TB

The Independent: The return of the plague: We need to act now to prevent tuberculosis from wreaking more havoc
Jezza Neumann, filmmaker

“…[T]uberculosis (TB) is already hovering in the background of people’s everyday lives. One in three people around the world is carrying the disease… I would love to see a proper, coordinated, response to DR-TB globally. I’d love to see a way that new drugs could be developed, that support could be given to reducing the length of toxic treatments currently available…” (3/17).

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