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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved the establishment of a national committee on tuberculosis (TB) eradication.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has emphasised that tuberculosis is an infectious but not scary disease, and thanks to the development of medicine today it is no longer an "incurable disease."

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has requested stronger and more effective actions to wipe out tuberculosis (TB) by 2030 at a ceremony held in Hanoi on March 23 in response to the World Tuberculosis Day 2019.

Vietnam is now able to treat all strains of multi-drug-resistant and totally drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) with short-term treatment regimens using newly accessible drugs.

Vietnam is striving to reduce the rate of tuberculosis (TB) patients to 131 cases/100,000 people and the fatality rate from the disease to lower than 10/100,000 people by 2020.