What else can be done to prevent TB?

Question: What else can be done to prevent TB?
- Keywords:
  disease,
  prevent,
  tb,
  tuberculosis
Asked by 07hughesroi to Helen on 17 Jun 2011.
- Helen Fletcher answered on 17 Jun 2011:
  
  Good question!! More effective TB drugs would help a lot. Preferably ones that you don’t have to take for 6 months (as you currently do). Also, TB is difficult to diagnose and often people have been coughing and spreading the disease for several months before it’s picked up. So a rapid, sensitive diagnostic test would be a big help. Tb is also a disease of disrupted communities and poverty. Increased wealth an improved social conditions would have a big impact on TB rates.

Question: What else can be done to prevent TB?