East Africa: TB control programs inadequate – WHO

by IRIN News

Several countries in eastern Africa have a high incidence of tuberculosis but have yet to develop effective national strategies to curtail the disease, the United Nations World Health Organization said in its 2007 global TB report, ‘Global tuberculosis control – surveillance, planning, financing’.

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