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WHO urged the world to apply lessons learned from the pandemic to tuberculosis, which severely affects countries such as India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Pakistan. Source link

Nearly two-thirds of people with TB symptoms did not seek treatment, according to a 2019-21 nationwide government survey released on World TB Day on Thursday. Ashna Ashesh, 29, diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis four years ago, saw how patients, many isolated and jobless because of lockdowns, struggled for support. “They were …