Focus: Ignoring basic TB control fuels drug resistance
Channel: CNS
Date: 2015-09-03

Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) besides being a brewing public health emergency, is also a sordid reminder of what happens when most effective drugs, become ineffective - and - alarming number of people die of diseases which were much simpler to prevent, treat and cure in the past. 

CNS spoke with Dr Lee B Reichman, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS), and Executive Director of NJMS Global Tuberculosis Institute: in Sydney where the 5th Asia Pacific Region Conference on Lung Health was held. 

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