Not enough
Tuberculosis (tb) kills two million people worldwide, one-third of the world's population is currently infected, of them roughly eight million develop active tb each year. But at the Stop tb Partnership Summit held in New Delhi on 24-26 March 2004, moods were buoyant. The World Health Organization's (who), The 2004 Global Tuberculosis Control report, released here revealed that most of the 22 high burden countries have had good success in implementing dots (Direct Observed Treatment, Short course)
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