New research found 574 people were diagnosed with TB only after death, exposing delays in recognising a preventable and treatable disease.
- Deputy Director of the Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Reader in Tuberculosis and Social Medicine, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK; and Honorary Research Associate at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and, University of Liverpool
England is at risk of losing its ‘low TB incidence’ status.
Ukraine has one of the highest rates of multidrug-resistant TB in the world.
COVID will be with us for years to come – the NHS needs to adapt.
We tried our hardest to provide the best care in dire circumstances. There wasn’t an alternative.
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The coronavirus pandemic is placing immense mental and physical pressures on NHS staff.
We can’t eradicate TB without also addressing poverty.
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