When health workers stopped visiting her home in Pakistan to administer tuberculosis medication, Ratna Jamni began dragging herself to a clinic step by painful step, when even standing feels impossib… [+8244 chars]
Tuberculosis is the world’s top infectious killer. Aid groups say Trump’s funding freezes will cause more deaths - CNN
Doctors and aid workers warn that the freeze to USAID-funded TB programs is likely to cause thousands of unnecessary deaths and a rise in TB infections worldwide, and create the conditions for an extremely drug-resistant form of the disease to spread.
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