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PRO/EDR> Tuberculosis, MDR – Papua New Guinea (03): children, fatal
Tuberculosis -- Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea [PNG]'s children are bearing the burden of the nation's drug resistant tuberculosis crisis, with experts warning that current statistics on the disease, dubbed "Ebola with wings", are an underestimate. A report, commissioned by the charity ChildFund Australia, found PNG has one of the highest TB prevalence rates in the world at 529 cases per 100 000 population. Children account for about 26 per cent of detected TB cases in PNG, but experts fear that Read more [...]
