How can we win the war against tuberculosis?

Clinical lead Doctor Al Story points to an x-ray showing a pair of lungs infected with TB (tuberculosis) during an interview with Reuters on board the mobile X-ray unit screening for TB in Ladbroke Grove in London January 27, 2014. The only mobile unit testing for TB in the country works with the most vulnerable to the disease including the homeless, drug and alcohol dependent.

A chest X-ray of a TB patient is shown. Image: REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

Melvin Sanicas
Regional Medical Expert, Sanofi Pasteur
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