[Focus] Will Global Goals 2030 galvanize response to TB in children?
Channel: CNS
Date: 2015-12-13

Tuberculosis (TB) in children have long been neglected. But in recent past commendable progress has been made with launch of Childhood TB Roadmap in 2013, and first-ever child-friendly TB drugs launched at 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Cape Town in December 2015. Most importantly, countries globally committed to end TB by 2030 as part of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at 70th UN General Assembly in September 2015.

CNS spoke with Dr Cherise P Scott, Director (pediatric programs) at TB Alliance, one of the most respectable agencies spearheading development of new TB drugs with a particular focus on child-friendly TB drugs.

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