Blog Reviews Recent IOM Report On Drug-Resistant TB

The Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks” blog reviews “the Institute of Medicine’s recent report on the global crisis of drug-resistant TB, itself a summary of a joint workshop hosted by the IOM and the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing earlier [in 2013]. At the workshop, participants discussed the opportunities for emerging leadership in drug-resistant TB control from the BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — and discussed innovative strategies to advance efforts to address drug-resistant TB…” (Aziz, 12/23).

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