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The Tuberculosis Crisis

The unprecedented scale of the problem of TB, with the loss of 30 million lives likely

The unprecedented scale of the problem of TB, with the loss of 30 million lives likely. The World Health Organisation's World Tuberculosis Day hopes to increase awareness of a disease that had been almost eradicated. More people are now dying of the disease than at the turn of the 20th Century, with antibiotic resistance a real problem.

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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project