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Monday 22 November 2010
HAITI: Combating TB in Port-au-Prince's tent cities
PORT-AU-PRINCE, 17 November 2010 (PlusNews) - Health workers in Haiti are concerned about the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in the tent cities that have housed more than one million people since the massive earthquake in January.
"With the quake this became an emergency," said Macarthur Charles, a doctor with Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO), one of the largest HIV- and TB-focused NGOs in Haiti...
Monday 22 November 2010
HAITI: Combating TB in Port-au-Prince's tent cities
PORT-AU-PRINCE, 17 November 2010 (PlusNews) - Health workers in Haiti are concerned about the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in the tent cities that have housed more than one million people since the massive earthquake in January.
"With the quake this became an emergency," said Macarthur Charles, a doctor with Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO), one of the largest HIV- and TB-focused NGOs in Haiti...