Multi-drug resistant TB: How is Europe responding to the challenge?

Leading politicians, officials, researchers and civil society organisations convened in Brussels at the launch of European Voice‟s multi-drug resistant (MDR-TB) policy report in the lead up to World TB day, to discuss the rising incidence of MDR-TB, the need for more effective treatments, new vaccines and better diagnostics and what needs to done at a European level to tackle this preventable disease. The event was supported by Janssen and 10 other partnering organisations including the European Respiratory Society, the European Lung Foundation and TB Alliance.



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