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© Possible / CC BY. Two student-doctors assist locals at a village in Nepal by checking their lung x-ray results.
At last week’s 45th World Conference on Lung Health [1] in Barcelona, Spain, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and World Diabetes Foundation jointly issued a call to action against a global co-epidemic of diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis.
DM-TB embodies the sort of challenge we will increasingly face in the post-2015 development era. It’s also a challenge that our community and the global health system at large are — at present — not adequately positioned to solve.
Read full article [2]by José Luis Castro, executive director of The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease [3]
Want to learn more? Check out the Healthy Means campaign site [4]
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Post Date:
Wednesday, 5 November, 2014
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