Fighting tuberculosis
Every year on March 24, observed as World Tuberculosis Day, India takes stock of the progress of the Directly Observed Treatment Scheme (DOTS), launched as the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in 1997. The results of the stocktaking are not very encouraging. (Editorial) April 5-11, 2008
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