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Endangering Lives: Tuberculosis and Mutation

Booklet
Endangering Lives: Tuberculosis and Mutation

This booklet calls upon national programs for TB control, donors, financing institutions, civil society, media, and communities to join hands in intensifying the fight against drug-resistant TB.

Author:

World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Stop Tuberculosis Programme, WHO EMRO

Audiences:

International Agencies, Policy Makers

Topic:

Advocacy/Communications, MDR TB, Extensively Drug-Resistant TB (XCR TB)

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