Experts ask Journalists To Fight Stigma, Misinformation About Tuberculosis

Experts leading Nigeria’s tuberculosis (TB) response have tasked journalists to become frontline partners in ending preventable deaths from the disease.
They warned that stigma, misinformation and late presentation are killing Nigerians despite free and effective treatment.
At the close of a three-day media sensitisation meeting organised by TB Network in Abuja, Dr Clement Adesigbin, national Coordinator of the National Tuberculosis, Buruli Ulcer and Leprosy Control Programme (NTBLCP) at the Federal
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, said Nigeria has potent medicines to cure TB, yet about 60,000 people still died of the disease last year.
The coordinator said the deaths persis...