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Pledge to fight drug-resistant TB

Gathering in Beijing, health ministers from 27 countries agreed a series of measures to combat the global epidemic of drug resistant tuberculosis. The three-day-conference was organised by the UN World Health Organisation, China's Ministry of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

7 Apr 2009

Representatives from countries including India, China, Russia and South Africa promised to move towards universal access to diagnosis and treatment for multi-drug resistant TB and extensively drug-resistant TB. Only 3% of the 500,000 new multi-drug resistant TB cases every year are diagnosed.

Source: Panos London

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