Parliamentarians from the United Kingdom and countries in Asia and the Pacific gathered this week in Sydney, Australia, to create a unified voice for the region’s fight against tuberculosis.
“The Asia-Pacific region has more than half the burden of TB globally and almost half the deaths,”
Maree Nutt, CEO of Results Australia, which helped coordinate the Asia-Pacific meeting, told Devex. “We need to be addressing TB in our region.”
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