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Outdated Policies, Critical Gaps Fueling Global Drug-Resistant TB Crisis

An MSF doctor shows a lung X-ray to a extensively drug-resistant TB patient in Kara Suu hospital, Kyrgyzstan. Vincent Tremeau

BARCELONA/NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)–October 30, 2014.  Outdated policies and practices and critical gaps in care for drug-resistant tuberculosis(DR-TB) are fueling a worldwide public health crisis, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report, Out of Step, released today at the 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Based…

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