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Drug resistance
Resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs that develops because of sub-optimal therapy — usually by not completing the course of treatment.
Information Services
Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
A climate for disease?
Will climate change worsen the burden of insect-borne disease? The scientific jury is still out
