WHO Urges More Investment for Tuberculosis Prevention

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Ahead of World TB Day, the World Health Organization has said while global efforts to combat the disease have saved an estimated 75 million lives since the year 2000, it still causes 1.3 million deaths each year and affects millions more in communities and families.

A new TB investment case study highlights the impact to be achieved from expanding screening and preventive treatment."The investment case outlines the health and economic rationale for investing in evidence-based, WHO-recommended interventions on TB screening and prevention that can contribute to advancing universal health coverage", WHO's Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said.

A large Phase 3 trial will evaluate whether the M72/AS01E vaccine candidate can protect adolescents and adults from pulmonary tuberculosis Clinical trial site at… Tuberculosis in children is a silent scourge: one child dies of TB every three minutes and more than half of all children with TB are never diagnosed. Taking the opportunity…

 

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