WHO's response to our letter
In our last blog we published the letter we wrote to Dr Matteo Zignol of the WHO in response to a letter which he wrote to the Guardian dismissing a study of MDR-TB prevalence in West Africa (conducted in eight countries) as being "unhelpful" and "misleading" without any real substantiation. Given the fact that there is very clearly an MDR-TB problem in the region (indeed the estimated rate of MDR-TB in Nigeria rose 20% in a single year in the most recent WHO Global TB Repor)
