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Stop TB Partnership and Médecins Sans Frontières launch Out of Step Report showing urgent need for updated National TB Policies

Press Release | Stop TB Partnership, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) | December 2, 2015

The Stop TB Partnership and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today released Out of Step 2015 report, a 24-country survey of policies and practices used to guide the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB). If countries are to meet Sustainable Development Goals target to End TB by 2030, aggressive efforts must start now to adopt and implement the 14 key policies and practices identified in the report, which are currently recommended by World Health Organization (WHO). In 2014 only one in four (26%) of the 480,000 people estimated to have developed multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) was diagnosed, with 111,000 people (23%) started on treatment and less than half of them successfully treated...

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