Paris, March 11, 2025 (AFP) - 'Getting scary': US aid cuts undermine global fight against TB

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2025-03-11

The Trump administration's sweeping foreign aid cuts will send tuberculosis cases and deaths soaring around the world, humanitarian workers have warned. One told AFP that people are already dying from a lack of treatment in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The United States has long been the biggest funder for the global fight against tuberculosis -- once known as consumption -- which is again the world's biggest infectious diseas......

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