Global TB fight slows down amid COVID-19 disruptions: experts – Xinhua | English.news.cn – Xinhua

NAIROBI, March 18 (Xinhua) — Progress towards eliminating tuberculosis suffered a major setback in the past year amid disruption in surveillance, diagnosis and case management linked to COVID-19 pandemic, experts said on Thursday.
The international health experts, who spoke at a virtual briefing in Nairobi ahead of World TB Day to be marked on March 24, said the pandemic had reversed gains made in the fight against the bacterial disease.
“Twelve years of impressive gains in the fight against TB,…

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