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End TB – Its time to tick the clock! – The Jakarta Post – Jakarta Post
It is time to catapult the TB response on the fulcrum of technology throughout the TB cascade of care not only to maintain essential TB services, but also to improve…
Preventable and treatable, yes TB is both. With this principle in line, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the End TB Strategy in 2014 which aims to to reduce TB deaths by 95 percent and cutting the incidence by 90 percent between 2015 and 2035.
But, are we on the track to achieve the targets set forth?
The statistics speak otherwise. WHO reports that TB is amongst the top ten causes of death worldwide and the leading cause from infectious diseases. TB claimed and estimated 1.4 million…
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