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Why community and not confinement will end TB

  • Written by Eric Friedman, Researcher, Georgetown University
A prisoner looks out a window on March 26, 2015, from Zhdanivskaya prison in Ukraine, were TB is rampant.AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov

The global response to tuberculosis has saved millions of lives; TB treatment saved 53 million lives between 2000 and 2016. Yet each year millions still suffer, and often die, from this preventable, treatable and...

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