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Call to address TB

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The World Health Organization (WHO) yesteday warned that the Western Pacific Region's gains in tuberculosis control over the last decade would be lost unless multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB, as well as TB-HIV co-infection, are urgently addressed.

While there has been significant progress towards the regional goal of decreasing by half TB prevalence and mortality rates compared with 2000 levels, WHO said these successes may be reversed unless gaps in financial and technical support are put in place to effectively address these challenges.