World Health Organization : Year 1998 ; World Health Organization, Tuberculosis, No. 98.247: The World Has the Tools and the Resources to Determine the Future of the TB Epidemic

By Gro Harlem Brundtland, Dr.

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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
An ancient disease is killing more people today than ever before. Tuberculosis - which many of us believed would disappear in our lifetime - has staged a frightening comeback. This is not for lack of a cure. As this report shows, the DOTS strategy can work anywhere, even in countries that are economically devastated or at war. And TB control has never been so affordable. The powerful anti-TB drugs used in the DOTS strategy cost just a fraction of what they did a decade ago - as little as $11 in some countries. Our greatest challenges in controlling TB are political rather than medical. Many countries are still not using DOTS. The longer countries delay making TB control a high political priority, the more costly it will eventually be to fight the disease.

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