The Fight Against Tuberculosis in Vietnam
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The Tuberculosis Centre of Research Excellence (TB-CRE) received $2.5 million of funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) over a 5 year period (2013—2017). The TB-CRE is a multi-disciplinary centre that supports world-class research to improve coordination between and strengthen existing research initiatives in Australia on public health interventions, epidemiological understanding, basic science approaches and ethical/legal challenges related to TB control. There is an urgent need for better, more accessible, and more affordable diagnostics and therapeutics as well as improved case finding strategies to reduce TB-related morbidity and mortality, and to limit ongoing disease transmission.
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