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MANILA, PIA – The Department of Health (DOH) reported that the Philippines is now one of the seven among the 22 high-burdened countries that have achieved its 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) in fighting tuberculosis (TB) as early as 2012. The other six countries were Brazil, Cambodia, China, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, and Vietnam. Secretary of Health Janette P. Loreto-Garin disclosed that there has been a marked decline in TB burden since the launching […]
(Reuters) – Half a million people fell sick with dangerous superbug strains of tuberculosis (TB) in 2012, but fewer than one in four were diagnosed, putting the rest at risk of dying due to the wrong medicines or no treatment at all. Latest data from the World Health Organisation (WHO), which says drug-resistant TB is a “global health security risk”, showed a third of the estimated 9 million people who contract TB in any form […]
