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“Our Region has the lowest TB treatment success rate and the highest M/XDR-TB rate in the world,” says Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe. “TB has not spared any country in our Region, but has hit hardest in the 18 high-priority countries, mainly in the eastern part of the Region [Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan]. This is something we must address as a matter of urgency. Special attention should be paid to timely diagnosis and adequate treatment of all types of the disease, with particular attention to vulnerable populations.”
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