Health Ministers Accelerate Goals to Diagnose and Treat Drug-Resistant TB

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Elizabeth

After last week’s World Health Organization (WHO)-sponsored meeting, health ministers from countries with a high disease burden of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) committed towards accelerated goals for the detection, prevention, and treatment of MDR- and XDR-TB. 
The governments present issued a Call for Action asserting that all countries would take action to meet the following goals:

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Bill Gates partners with Chinese government to fight TB

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Jackie T.

 
At a global meeting in China, of health ministers from 27 countries affected by the rise of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB, Bill Gates and the Chinese Minister of Health Chen Zhu announced an innovative partnership to help fight a serious tuberculosis epidemic in China.  The 5 year initiative will be led by the Chinese Ministry of Health [...]

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