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Immediate Action Needed To Curb Spread Of TB, Especially Among Children
In this entry in the Huffington Post's "Impact" blog, Kolleen Bouchane, director of ACTION, an international partnership of advocates working to mobilize resources to treat and prevent the spread of tuberculosis (TB), examines the need for improved TB vaccines and diagnostics in order to curb the spread of multidrug-resistant TB, especially among children, and highlights ACTION's new report (.pdf), "Children and Tuberculosis: Exposing a Hidden Epidemic," which she says "exposes the link between TB and orphaned and vulnerable children, malnourished children or children living with HIV."
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