Senators Urge President Obama To Increase Funding To Support National TB Action Plan

Humanosphere: Without money, effort to stop TB becomes ‘another plan on the shelf’
Humanosphere reporter Tom Murphy discusses TB activists’ and senators’ call for more funding to support the recently launched National Action Plan to Address Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, citing a recent letter signed by seven senators stating, “Without an increase in funding, it will be difficult — if not impossible — to quickly execute the plan,” as well as a letter written by a similar group of senators when the administration made a preliminary announcement about the National Action Plan (1/27).

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