The Selangor state government is offering an RM800 incentive to Malaysians residing in Selangor who get treated for tuberculosis (TB) at public or private health care facilities in Selangor or KL. Payment will be made in 3 phases throughout treatment.
Civil society in Ukraine rode bicycles to deliver HIV and tuberculosis medications during a fuel shortage during the Russia-Ukraine conflict; if there were no bicycles, they walked.
Tuberculosis is treatable and easily diagnosed yet until Covid-19 emerged it was the world's biggest infectious killer, leading to 1.4 million deaths each year and infecting more than 10 million people.