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What is Needed to End TB and Who TB Most Affects

21 May 2018
by Working Group

Bloomberg News reported this week on how world leaders can be successful in ending TB by 2030 and the demographics that TB affects most. One article discusses multi-drug and extensive drug resistant patients as well as challenges, funding needs, and the needs for new tools to defeat TB. The other discusses TB's strong link to the most impovershed populations. To read more, please click below: 

Article 1: What will it take to finally defeat Tuberculosis 

Article 2: Who dies from TB? 

 

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