How Can We Overcome The Barriers To Treating Drug-resistant TB?
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 23:21
in Health & Medicine
Almost 1 in 20 cases of tuberculosis worldwide is resistant to multiple drugs (known as multidrug-resistant TB or MDR-TB) and the World Health Organization has called for a massive scale up in public health efforts to tackle these cases. Now a group of MDR-TB experts outlines its recommendations on conducting research that would help in the scale up.