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  US charity helps North Korea fight drug-resistant TB

  World | October 14, 2014 12:07 IST

  Washington: Despite worsening U.S.-North Korean relations, an American charity is ramping up efforts against an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the isolated country, where it says it is making inroads in fighting the deadly disease.The

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  WHO targets elimination of TB in over 30 countries

  World | July 03, 2014 17:12 IST

  Rome: The World Health Organisation (WHO), along with the European Respiratory Society (ERS), on Thursday presented a new framework to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) in countries with low levels of the disease.There are 33 countries and