WHO on Thai TB
Thailand is now ranked 17th in a World Health Organis-ation list of 22 countries where tuberculosis is widespread, National Health Security Office (NHSO) secretary-general Dr Sa-nguan Nittayara-mphong saidy.
Published on August 18, 2007
TB in Thailand has been resurgent along with the worsening Aids situation, coupled with inefficient preventive government measures, he said. The NHSO is running a network of disease control with more than 800 tambon administrative organisation and municipalities countrywide.