An MSF counsellor talks to a person with drug-resistant TB at a TB hospital in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Copyright by WHO/Aleksander Binek
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27 March 2024

Wake-up call: Lessons learned from Poland must reaffirm TB as an EU health priority

Copyright by WHO/Aleksander Binek
An MSF counsellor talks to a person with drug-resistant TB at a TB hospital in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Copyright by WHO/Aleksander Binek

Over the last century, Europe — including Northern, Western, Southern and Central European countries — made remarkable progress in the near elimination of tuberculosis (TB) due to improved socio-economic conditions and advancements in research and development. However, a recent surge of TB in Europe, coupled with lack of structural preparedness within many European Union (EU) countries to address it, threatens to undo this hard-earned progress.

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