Drug resistance in malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV in South East Asia: biology, programme, and policy considerations
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T he World Health Organization South East Asia region, home to a third of the world’s population, has half the global incident cases of tuberculosis (TB), and a tenth of the estimated burden of malaria and HIV. The risk of disease transmission from travel and migration of people from and within the region highlight the importance of tackling this large disease burden. Failure to control or eliminate these diseases could negatively affect health and development worldwide. The increasing resistance to the drugs used to treat malaria, TB, and HIV (fig 1), and its ability to move across national borders, are challenges to controlling these diseases. Furthermore, drug resistance in malaria, TB, and HIV, and the effect of individual, sociocultural, environmental, and political factors differ between countries, which make containment even harder.
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دوره 358 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017