The World Health Organization is calling from greater political assistance to combat multidrug resistant-tuberculosis in Mongolia. 

"There is an urgent need to scale up the management of multidrug resistant-TB, which has emerged across the Region, including the Pacific," said Dr Shigeru Omi, World Health Organization Regional Director for the Western Pacific. "The potential magnitude of the threat of multidrug-resistant TB in the Region requires countries to urgently develop a response and thus prevent the development of extensively drug resistant-TB or XDR-TB." 

The Region has about a third of the global multidrug resistant-TB burden, mostly in China and the Philippines, and to some extent, in Mongolia, the Republic of Korea and Viet Nam. 

Tuberculosis continues to be a major public health problem in the Western Pacific despite it being the only WHO Region that has achieved the 2005 global targets for TB control.

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