Senior UN humanitarian official visits DR Congo after murder of five aid workers
11 October 2011 –
The United Nations health agency reported today that for the first
time the
number of
people falling ill with tuberculosis (TB) each year is declining, but warned that current progress is at risk due to under-funding.
New data,
published in the World Health Organization (WHO) 2011 Global Tuberculosis Control Report, shows that the
number of
people who fell ill with TB dropped to 8.8 million in 2010, after peaking at 9 million in 2005.
The
report also finds that TB deaths ....
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