Guest speaker, Dr Clifton Barry, at the Webster Centre Symposium, expressed his concern about the lack of resources to address Tb, in an interview with the Otago Daily Times.
Dr Barry and Dr Jo White, the Pennsylvania-based chief medical officer at VGX Pharmaceuticals, were in Dunedin last week as keynote speakers at the two-day Webster Centre Symposium on infectious diseases, held at St Margaret's College.
Professor Kurt Krause, who is director of the Webster Centre for Infectious Diseases at the University of Otago, said that tuberculosis remained an "enormous problem", causing about two million deaths each year, and with an estimated two billion people having a latent form of the disease.
Read the full article in the Otago Daily Times:
Lack of resources in Tb fight decried 27 April 2009, Otago Daily Times website
Read the report from the symposium: