Alert Summer 2017 | Vol. 18 No. 2

Quarterly NewsletterAlert Summer 2017 | Vol. 18 No. 2July 17, 2017Tuberculosis (TB) killed 1.8 million people last year, overtaking HIV/AIDS as the world's deadliest infectious disease. Another nine million people suffer from TB. MSF is among the largest non-governmental providers of TB care in the world. We supported more than 20,000 patients on treatment in 2016 —including more than 2,000 patients fighting DR-TB. We run 24 projects to treat the disease, in places from Swaziland to Tajikistan.
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