Re:Drug resistance threatens India's battle against TB. (March 24th W

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Important information on MDR TB!!

I see that experts have suggested development of advanced diagnostic facilities

and drug availability for dealing with MDR TB.

But we also need to look at why there are more cases of MDR. It is because

people are leaving the treatment halfway after visible signs have diassappeared.

This is the greatest challenge and i would like to suggest that the quality of

counselling and follow-up mecahnisms have to improve as well as the problems

related to the access for working people have to be addressed.

Only then we can we can make some headway. This will also help in achieving the

target of detection rate.

Only developing better diagnostic techniques may not help.

Swati Pongurlekar

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