MAJURO, February 21 — A mass screening and treatment program for tuberculosis was scheduled to get underway today on Ebeye Island in the Marshall Islands. It is the second phase of a project that was launched in November with an outreach awareness and registration program of about 60 percent of Ebeye’s population in preparation for the nine-week phase two program.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands (Marianas Variety, Nov. 11, 2016) – A mass TB screening program that could have global ramifications for TB control was launched last week in the Marshall Islands.