World tb day 2015

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TB death toll unacceptable, immoral, TB is a treatable disease: Tutu

TB provides us with a wake-up call on our shortfall in bridging social inequalities in health.

DM-TB “challenges the conventional approach of tackling independently infectious diseases, like TB, and chronic non communicable diseases,” like diabetes.

Facing down the TB-diabetes co-epidemicWHO already estimating that there are as many as 1 million people living with DM-TB .