The crisis behind drug-resistan

The crisis behind drug-resistant bacteria continues to plague doctors and researchers as international organizations stated that more funding would be needed to deal with the certain drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis. With the World TB Day just a week away, health organizations, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, stated that an extra $1.6 billion should ideally be added to the global fight against this disease. This would increase the overall funding to $4.8 billion annually.

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"It is critical that we raise the funding that is urgently needed to control this disease," the head of the Global Fund, Mark Dybul said. "If we don't act now, our costs could skyrocket. It is invest now or pay forever."

 "We are treading water at a time when we desperately need to scale up our responses [to this disease]," the WHO director-general, Margaret Chan added