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In more than 80 countries, mobile x-ray machines are being combined with AI models to instantly screen people for TB.
It's being used for nomadic tribes in Nigeria and refugee camps in Chad.
Peter Sands heads the Global Fund.
Advocacy groups like Stop TB have embraced this approach, but some health experts have cautioned that many low-income countries don't yet have the regulations to make sure the technology has quality control checks.
medications require at least one ingredient that comes solely from China.
This is the case for the very common antibiotic amoxicillin.
India is the sole supplier of an ingredient in roughly 400 U.S.
medications, or about 22% in the analysis done by U.S.
Pharmacopeia, a nonprofit that sets quality standards the U.S.
to be less reliant by manufacturing these chemicals in the U.S.
or increasing the geographic diversity of the supply chain.