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You are watching TB Season 1 Episode 8

Every second someone in the world dies from TB. A new treatment regime called DOTS is reducing mortality rates; however there has been no new class of TB drugs since the 1950s so patients still have to take a high number of drugs for a long period of time. There are also new anxieties posed by multi-drug resistant TB and the synergy between HIV and TB – both could result in a TB explosion.

• On site 09 September 2008
• Air date 28 June 2004
• Produced for BBC World

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Keywords

• Imperial College,
• Malawi,
• Asia,
• Africa,
• TDR,
• DOTS