Via @madhupai.bsky.social:
"...every US$1 invested in TB yields $46 in benefits."
"Greater investments by high-burden countries make them less reliant on development assistance and more likely to have a sustainable TB response"
Amit Chandra, MD
My new essay in @economist.com Health Dividend
Tuberculosis kills on a vast scale, but as foreign aid shrinks, countries with a high burden of TB stand to gain a lot by investing more to curb the disease and its heavy social cost
impact.economist.com/health-socie...
Madhukar Pai of McGill University says tuberculosis kills on a vast scale, but as foreign aid shrinks, countries with a high burden of TB stand to gain a lot by investing more to curb the disease and ...