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Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Spreads as $1.6 Billion Needed
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Low and middle-income countries need an additional $1.6 billion a year to fight tuberculosis, threatening progress made against the world’s second-deadliest infectious disease, health officials said.
About $3.2 billion will be spent annually through 2016 combating the disease in 118 such nations and $4.8 billion is needed, the World Health Organization and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said in a joint statement today. The additional funds may enable treatment for 17 million people and save 6 million lives from 2014 to 2016, they said.