MSF, Stop TB Partnership Call For High-Burden TB Countries To Align Testing, Treatment Practices With International Standards

Médecins Sans Frontières: TB: Governments given deadline to increase testing and treatment
“Ahead of the first-ever Global Ministerial Conference on ‘Ending TB’ in Moscow, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Stop TB Partnership called for countries with high burdens of tuberculosis (TB) to implement the latest international treatment and testing standards by World TB Day, 24 March 2018. … The #StepUpforTB petition is an urgent call for health ministers in key TB-affected countries to get their TB policies and practices in line with international standards, as defined by WHO, including testing and treatment of TB and its drug-resistant forms…” (11/15).

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