Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that affects a growing number of people around the world. Usually, it can be treated with antibiotics but some forms of the disease have emerged that do not respond to different types of drugs, making it very difficult to treat. What are the trends in drug-resistant tuberculosis around the world and what must be done to control it? GreenFacts faithfully summarized the Fourth Global Report on “Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World” by the WHO and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (IUATLD).

View the GreenFacts summary on drug-resistant tuberculosis