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Step by step, Viet Nam is establishing gold-standard laboratory, clinical, drug procurement, planning and monitoring services to better assess and control MDR-TB.
Credit: WHO/E. Eraly

Jerome has multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), he has been undergoing treatment for over a month at the East Avenue Medical Center in Quezon City, Philippines.

Jerome has multidrug-resistant TB, he has been undergoing treatment for over a month at the East Avenue Medical Center, Philippines.
Credit: WHO/HM.Dias

A laboratory technician at a TB clinic in the Philippines prepares the sputum sample for microscopic examination.
Credit: WHO/HM.Dias

Thanh, a 24-year-old wife and mother, was diagnosed with TB last year at the community health post, Viet Nam.
Credit: WHO/E. Eraly

Testing of TB patient specimens in upgraded biosafety level-2 laboratory.
Credit: WHO/K. Kelleher

Patients waiting at the Hue National Hospital, Viet Nam. Credit: WHO/K. Lonnroth

A girl taking her TB medication under the supervision of a health worker in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Credit: WHO/M.Grzemska

Woman waits for her turn to be screened for TB, Swaziland.

A woman at Pigg’s Peak Hospital waits her turn to be screened for TB, Swaziland.
Credit: WHO/H.M. Dias

A lab technician loads a sputum sample into an Xpert® MTB/RIF machine for TB diagnosis.

A lab technician loads a sputum sample into an Xpert® MTB/RIF machine for TB diagnosis, Swaziland.
WHO/H.M. Dias

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