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TB Alliance calls for TB to be added to WHO critical list

1 March 2017

The TB Alliance has called on the World Health Organisation to add Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the critical group of its .

The TB Alliance issued a on 28th February questioning TB's "shocking" absence from the list of priority pathogens.  In response, WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan to promoting research and development of new anti-TB drugs.  "Addressing drug-resistant TB research is a top priority for WHO and for the world", said Dr Chan.

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