Caption: Dr Alma Elsony (left), (leader of the review of the National TB Control Programme, and Vice President of the IUATLD), dr Jaime Sarmento (director of the NTP), and dr Einar Heldal (senior adviser to the NTP) observe a tuberculosis patient take his daily dosis of TB drugs. Compliance with the prescribed treatment is essentioal, both to cure the patient, and to avoid creating drug resistance.
Dili, East Timor -- 8 March 2003