Around 60 per cent of people who have contracted TB have already been detected, according to estimates from the HCM City Health Association. 

Medical staff working in a mobile vehicle offered free X-rays and skin tests last Sunday to people living in HCM City's Tân Bình District who are at a high risk of contracting TB.

Shortage of funding and trained personnel, as well as social discrimination, are undermining Việt Nam’s hard-won success in combatting the scourge of tuberculosis.