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17 Oct 2012 | 17:28 GMT

The TB drugs don’t work

Posted by Leigh Phillips | Categories: Industry

Drug resistant TB is on the rise around the world.

The good news is that tuberculosis prevention efforts appear to have broken the back of the spread of the disease, according to the World Health Organisation’s latest annual report on the scourge, with new cases of TB falling by 2.2% between 2010 and 2011. The mortality rate has decreased 41% since 1990 and access to TB care has expanded considerably since the mid nineties, when tuberculosis was declared a global emergency by the UN body, with the WHO estimating that some 20 million lives have been saved since 1995.  Read more

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