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A health care worker treats a tuberculosis patient at a rural hospital at Tugela Ferry in South Africa's impoverished KwaZulu Natal province, October 28, 2006. A new strain of the disease, called extreme drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), has killed at least 79 people in the area since January 2005, prompting concern from the World Health Organisation who fear XDR-TB could become a major killer in AIDS-hit parts of Africa where governments have been slow to roll out TB control programs. REUTERS\Mike Hutchings (SOUTH AFRICA)

Health systems' capacity to handle challenges such as outbreaks depends greatly on the quality of their governance. Image: Reuters/Mike Hutchings

Emanuele Capobianco

Chief Strategy and Impact Officer, WHO Foundation, Steering Committee Member, Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR)

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