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Tue Jun 29 2021
A tuberculosis expert, Dr. Olugbenga Daniel, has said the burden of TB in the country with attendant missing cases requires the deployment of innovative strategies to identify and place people on treatment.
Speaking during a virtual interview with Daily Trust, he said Nigeria still has over 300,000 TB cases annually that are yet to be diagnosed.
Daniel, who is also the Director Technical Programmes, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Tuberculosis Local Organisations Network (TB LON 3) project, said Nigeria continues to have a huge number of missing TB cases because of low awareness, and 70 per cent funding gap.