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 # Lilly: Effective TB Care Starts with Early Diagnosis

 

##### By David Marbaugh

 

 

 Mar 28, 2014 11:05 AM ET

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Today's guest blog comes from Lilly's Vice President of Global Health Programs and Access, Dr. Evan Lee.

The World Health Organization reported some promising news this week: confirmed diagnoses of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) cases more than tripled between 2009 and 2013 in 27 countries targeted through an innovative collaboration called EXPAND-TB.  
  
Why is this a good thing? Because diagnosis is the critical first step in treating and caring for people affected by MDR-TB. It is also important for their families and friends, who are at risk and other close contacts in the community. Yet most cases are missed – in 2012, less than a quarter of the 450,000 people estimated to have fallen ill with MDR-TB were diagnosed and officially notified to ministries of health.

Through initiatives like [EXPAND-TB](http://www.who.int/tb/features_archive/EXPAND_TB_project_factsheet.pdf?ua=1), we are starting to close that gap.

[To learn more about developments in early TB detection, please read our blog.](https://lillypad.lilly.com/entry.php?e=3788)



 

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