Brazil strengthens Tuberculosis control programme
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Increasing the detection rate of tuberculosis is the leading aim of a new Brazilian campaign to raise awareness of a disease that kills around 6,000 people a year in the country. The health ministry's campaign is in support of the national TB programme (PNCT), which has a R$120m (US$42.5m) budget to 2007.