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Politics Key to TB Control in Developed Countries

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, October 2nd, 1995

Politics and not medicine dictates the response to tuberculosis in developed nations, and it is essential that politicians understand the threat, a French TB expert says.

"What was regarded as essential for the success of tuberculosis control in the 1950s when tuberculosis was endemic remains essential in the 1990s for all patients, especially those living in highly endemic areas," World Health Organization (WHO) Chairman of Mycobacterial Diseases Therapy Jacques Grosset said.

"It is the duty of public health officers to make the policy makers understand the difficulties; because the problems are political not medical, the solution is...

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