Jun 21 2011
Pakistan has one of the highest rates of tuberculosis (TB) in the world, with nearly 70,000 TB-related deaths each year, Al-Jazeera English reports. Though the government has spent "tens of millions of dollars" over the past decade to treat the disease, "the WHO says [it] is still 'highly epidemic.'" One of the country's biggest challenges is providing widespread treatment and education to those most at risk (Tyab, 6/19).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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