U.S. agencies release progress report on National Action Plan for Combating MDR-TB
On 22 December 2015 the White House officially released a plan to address multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) domestically and internationally and to advance research on this critical public health issue through a National Action Plan for Combating Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) released a report examining progress made on activities included in the National Action Plan as well as those planned for the future.
