The rising spectre of tuberculosis across Russia
Cases of drug resistant tuberculosis are on the rise in Russia. So why has Putin’s government banished one of the country’s biggest funders of TB programmes?
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Beaten, imprisoned and sold into slavery – Channel 4 News reveals the fate of Burma’s Muslim Rohingya refugees, who flee conflict only to end up in the clutches of brutal human traffickers.
Cases of drug resistant tuberculosis are on the rise in Russia. So why has Putin’s government banished one of the country’s biggest funders of TB programmes?
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