The World Health Organization, Stop TB Partnership, UNITAID and the heart* for cutting edge New Diagnostics on Monday announced a joint project to share a new diagnostic test for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis that can produce results in two days instead of the measure two or three months, the New York Times reports. Difficulty in identifying MDR-TB has been a "major obstacle" in in charge TB because many career die or spread the disease while waiting for test results, the Times reports.

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