Society and Culture
The World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are subsidizing a new fast-acting diagnostic test for use in low- and middle-income countries. Many resource-poor places as of 2011 still only have access to sputum microscopy.
India had the highest total number of TB cases worldwide in 2010, in part due to poor disease management within the private health care sector. Programs such as the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program are helping to reduce TB levels amongst people receiving public health care.
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