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 Financial crisis poses new challenge for TB/ AIDS activists

Submitted by Bobby Ramakant (bobby) about 1 year ago

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Photo by Speaker PelosiMore people with HIV/AIDS will be given access to medical treatment, but the worldwide financial crisis may undermine efforts as it threatens the global funding to fight the virus. Michel Kazatchkine, executive director of the Global Fund for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria (GFATM), said as the ongoing global crisis was shifting countries' attention from public health spending to economic recovery. Read source article...

Keywords: drug resistance economy extensively drug-resistant M/XDR-TB MDR-TB multi-drug resistant rececssion TB tuberculosis XDR-TB

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