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In this Aug 21, 2013 photo, Myanmar people gather to receive treatments at a clinic for HIV and Tuberculosis patients run by Médecins Sans Frontières, a medical non-profit, in the suburbs of Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)


Myanmar facing ‘urgent’ drug-resistant TB threat

Myanmar facing ‘urgent’ drug-resistant TB threat

by | Aug 23, 2013 | World

Yangon, Myanmar, AP—Twice a month, Min Naing Oo visits emaciated patients at a Myanmar clinic, urging them through his face-mask to keep taking their medicine no matter how sick it makes them. Otherwise they will die—and fuel the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis...