DRUG RESISTANT TB NEXT BIG HEALTH THREAT IN | Pacific Islands Report
DRUG RESISTANT TB NEXT BIG HEALTH THREAT IN Submitted by admin on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 00:00 PNG Major effort urged to stem tide PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (PNG Post-Courier, Aug. 5, 2010) – PAPUA New Guinea’s gains in tuberculosis (TB) control over the last decade would be lost unless multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB, as well as TB-HIV co-infection are urgently addressed, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. WHO says countries in the region, including PNG had made huge progress towards the regional goal of decreasing by half TB prevalence and mo...
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