Did poor bedside manner cause the rise of multidrug-resistant TB?

The Stop TB Partnership recently published Every Word Counts, Suggested Language and Usage for Tuberculosis Communications, the language guide for those involved, either directly or indirectly, in addressing the tuberculosis epidemic. The document called for people with TB infection to be put at the centre of the global TB response, starting with “acknowledging that the language commonly used to speak about TB must evolve.”

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