USAID donates $3.3m to tackle tuberculosis

Accelerating Nigeria’s tuberculosis response on stronger private partnerships

attacks the lungs, leaving affected patients with mainly severe coughs is preventable and curable.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has donated $3.3 million in commodities to the Federal Ministry of Health’s National TB and Leprosy Control Program (NTBLCP). The donation was made known on Monday in a statement signed by Jeanne Clark, information officer at the US Embassy.

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