Tag: tuberculosis

• Thursday, January 9th 2014 - 06:23 UTC

  Increase in TB cases in Buenos Aires linked to sweat shops working conditions

  

  Tuberculosis cases in Buenos Aires City have increased 25% between 1985 and 2011 according to a paper presented by a Federal Attorney who links the surge to dreadful working conditions in many of the sweat-shops in the Argentine capital that employ cheap foreign labor.

• Monday, March 18th 2013 - 20:10 UTC

  WHO warns of spread of TB strains multiple-drugs resistance; calls for funds

  

  The World Health Organization and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said on Monday that strains of tuberculosis with resistance to multiple drugs could spread widely and highlight an annual need of at least 1.6 billion dollars in international funding for treatment and prevention of the disease.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 02:14 UTC

  Peru admits 32.477 TB cases as part of the campaign to combat the disease

  

  Peru has 37% of all multi-resistant tuberculosis cases in the Americas and one in four patients of the disease abandon medication in a mild stage of the disease according to the World Health Organization.