South African AIDS activist Thembi Ngubane recently died of drug-resistant tuberculosis at the age of 24, the AP/Washington Post reports (Nullis, AP/Washington Post, 6/14). According to the
Health ministers from countries with the greatest burdens of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) have agreed to a series of actions to accelerate efforts to halt and reverse the global epidemic of the disease.
On Wednesday, government ministers and senior officials from 27 countries pledged to intensify efforts to control the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) following warnings from the World Health Organization (WHO) that the various drug-resistant forms of the disease are emerging as a major global threat.
