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Regional Committee for Europe
EUR/RC63/18 Corr.1 Sixty-third sessionÇeşme Izmir, Turkey, 16–19 September 2013 27 August 2013 131974
Provisional agenda item 5(k) ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
Progress reports
This document contains a correction to the section “Progress report on the implementation of the Consolidated Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Multidrug- and Extensively Drug- Resistant Tuberculosis in the WHO European Region 2011–2015”.
The final sentence of paragraph 8 should read:
“Despite having tripled since the endorsement of the Consolidated Action Plan, coverage of second line drug susceptibility testing is still only 9%, proving that up to 12% of all MDR- TB cases are extensively drug resistant.”