Involve communities: TB elimination is a people’s agenda - ETHealthWorld

Given the number of TB cases in the country, there is an urgent need to foreground the problem and place TB patients at the centre, surrounded by a supportive ecosystem of family and the community. Since TB patients suffer socio-economic consequences like sti…

by Dr Rehana BegumAccording to World Health Organization (WHO), 10 million people are afflicted with tuberculosis (TB) annually. Though both preventable and curable, each year, 1.5 million people die… [+4435 chars]

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