WHO launches new strategy to combat TB [Archives:2006/931/Local News]
March 23 2006
SANA'A, March 21 ) The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a new strategy to combat tuberculosis in an effort to limit deaths caused by the disease, which have reached 1.7 million.
The WHO's new strategy is part of a basic plan to prevent TB's spread. The $56 billion plan covering the years 2006-2015 will treat 50 million patients and halve the disease's spread. If fully implemented, it will lead to saving 14 million lives.
An international plan aims to end TB by presenting medicine to all patients, thereby achieving a Millennium Goal. At the same time, the strategy also is directed at AIDS.
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