"Wider access to newer technologies for rapid screening and diagnosis and use of shorter, patient friendly regimen is a non-negotiable in the time to come… There is also no option but to provide social protection if we wish to end TB. We need to think beyond health sector for addressing the disease."
−From speech made by Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director, WHO South-East Asia Region at the virtual High-Level Meeting for renewed TB response in the WHO South-East Asia Region, October 2021
