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"Madam President, four years before the deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the number of new cases of tuberculosis being diagnosed throughout the world is still alarming. Tuberculosis is a treatable disease. In developing countries, unfortunately, and in particular in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, it remains a very serious problem. According to recent estimates, around two billion people are infected with the tubercle bacillus, or in other words one third of the world’s population. Statistically speaking, one in ten of these individuals will go on to develop tuberculosis. The poorest regions of the world are at particular risk of an increase in new cases of tuberculosis, since poor nutrition and living conditions, as well as stress, create a favourable environment for development of the disease. Access to effective treatment for the disease is limited in many countries, and there is no coordination of treatment for AIDS and that for tuberculosis. This is a result of the fact that the governments of developing countries do not spend enough on health. In addition, healthcare systems in rural areas suffer from staffing shortages, and lack the means to treat such diseases. In countries with limited financial possibilities, the effects are therefore felt most severely in rural areas. Developed countries spend around 5% of GDP on public healthcare, whereas developing countries spend one half of this figure. It is therefore impossible for poorer countries to increase spending on health without external assistance, as was also noted by Mr Goerens. On top of this, tuberculosis is not only a medical problem, but also a social and economic problem, since it causes productivity to drop and has economic ramifications. All this means that we should be decisive in our response, and we really should make every effort to ensure that vaccines become more widely available."@en1
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