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Tuesday, 19 March 2013

United Nations Calls for Massive Funding Boost to Beat TB

Two international organizations have warned that a massive financial boost is needed to the fight tuberculosis even as drug-resistant strains of the disease take hold. The World Health Organisation and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said that an extra (Dollar) 1.6 billion a year was needed to bolster the battle by lifting the overall total to (Dollar) 4.8 billion. Tuberculosis (TB) infects around 8.7 million people worldwide every year and kills 1.4 million. ...


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