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Drug resistant strains could become the dominant form of TB in Europe: it’s time to end TBIf the current situation continues, the majority of tuberculosis (TB) patients in the next generation could be suffering from drug resistant forms of the disease. The latest WHO/European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) report, “Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2019 (2017 data)”, shows that the European Region is struggling to make sufficient progress to finally end TB.
News
- Drug resistant strains could become the dominant form of TB in Europe: it’s time to end TB
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- Ensuring safe drinking-water – highlighting water safety plans in Tajikistan on World Water Day
- WHO Europe/ECDC joint press release: Every hour 30 people are diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in the European Region. It’s time to make TB a disease of the past
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Events
- WHO Barcelona Course on Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage
- Health and well-being key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: Regional Forum on Sustainable Development
- 6th Prison Health Conference
- Sixth high-level meeting of the small countries – “Equity and sustainable development: keeping people at the centre”
- World Health Day 2019
Countries
Ensuring safe drinking-water – highlighting water safety plans in Tajikistan on World Water Day CountriesEmergencies and outbreaks
- Photo story – The human impact of WHO’s Refugee Health Programme in Turkey
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- Health response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine
- Syria crisis: health response from Turkey
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