inputs: hypothesis: XDR-TB is a type of tuberculosis. premise: Health ministers from countries suffering the highest burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases, including India, have agreed to a series of measures aimed at accelerating efforts to stop and reverse the global epidemic at a UN-backed meeting in China. Representatives of 27 countries with a high incidence of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) are meeting in Beijing for a three-day conference organised by the UN World Health Organisation (WHO), China's Ministry of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to secure funding and action to combat the spread of MDR-TB and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB).