The AMA voted to support federal legislation to increase resources for global and domestic tuberculosis (TB) control.
?About one-third of the world?s population is infected with tuberculosis, and drug resistant strains of TB are spreading around the world,? said J. James Rohack, M.D., AMA board member. ?About 10-14 million Americans are infected with latent TB. With the newest class of anti-TB drugs over 40 years old and the increase in multi-drug resistance, we need new tools to fight this killer disease.?