Lilly: Taking the Fight to MDR-TB

Campaign: Lilly Global Health Programs

Today's guest blog comes from Lilly's vice president of Global Health Programs, Evan Lee, M.D.

“Americans can no longer afford to be indifferent to the rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis.”

That’s the conclusion of an excellent op-ed in the International New York Times this week, penned by a journalist who recently visited Indonesia to investigate the impact of this disease. The country registers about 7,000 new cases of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) each year.

Read on for more about why even when the cost of medicine is free of charge, many don't complete the treatment.