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TB Alliance Stakeholders Association 2022 Virtual Meeting

Today, TB Alliance held a virtual meeting of its Stakeholders Association and other tuberculosis (TB) and global health stakeholders around the world to highlight the recent rapid communication issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Programme regarding updated guidelines for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and their potential impact on DR-TB therapy.

Fight TB: Know the signs and symptoms

Since January of 2016, we have seen an increase of multidrug-resistance tuberculosis (MDR TB) in Minnesota. The severe increase in these rates is due to an MDR TB outbreak within the Hmong community of the east metro. What is very concerning about this outbreak is that it is not regular TB, but MDR TB. This means some of the typical medicines used to treat TB do not work, and we need to use stronger medications over a long period of time to get rid of the disease.

Think TB

Infographic: Refer clients with symptoms lasting more than 2-3 weeks to a medical provider immediately. Clients with infectious TB disease should not be in group settings.