Center for Global Health Policy’s “Science Speaks”: TB advocates call on organizations, leaders to work together, speed access to existing treatments for drug-resistant tuberculosis
Antigone Barton, writer and editor of “Science Speaks” and senior communications officer at the Center for Global Health Policy, discusses a letter sent last week by a group of 89 organizations “to agencies, leaders, and pharmaceutical companies involved in TB product dissemination … The letter calls on all of them to agree to and announce a partnership on [March 24], World TB Day, with the goal of accelerating access to TB treatments that few have access to now, and that for many represent their best hope of surviving the disease…” (3/18).