from UN News Centre
Rates of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis – which takes longer to treat and requires more expensive drugs that have potentially serious side effects – are at an all-time high, according to a new report by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO).
The study, entitled “Anti-Tuberculosis Drub Resistance in the World,” is the largest ever on the scale of drub resistance and is based on information collected between 2002 and 2006 on 90,000 TB patients in 81 countries.
The agency estimates that there are nearly half a million new cases of multi-drug-resistant TB, known as MDR-TB, annually worldwide, accounting for 5 per cent of the 9 million new cases every year.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise, UN health agency says
