SA leads master plan to blot out TB worldwide

20 November 2015 - 02:33
By Katharine Child

The global approach to beating tuberculosis means it will take almost 200 years to eradicate it, despite it being a curable disease. Lucica Ditiu, executive director of the Stop TB Partnership, said: "It is a human tragedy that TB is killing 1.5million people a year and nobody speaks about ending it.

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