Taking a long-term view of tuberculosis
Assoc Prof Hsu Li Yang, Programme Leader of the Antimicrobial Resistance Programme at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Dr Loh Kah Seng, a historian and co-founder of Chronicles Research and Education noted that tuberculosis (TB) remains an epidemic in the majority of countries in the world, including Singapore, and it still exerts a ruinous toll on the health and economy of individuals and society. The authors opined that it is imperative Singapore utilises its international collaborative links, in conjunction with its national links and community capacities, to deal with the persisting threat of TB, as it had done throughout its history. Such commitment and focus must be decades-long, beyond the cycles of government leaders and business.
