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consumption

the satisfaction obtained by CONSUMERS from the use of goods and services. Certain CONSUMER DURABLE products, like washing machines, are consumed over a longish period of time, while other products, like cakes, are consumed immediately after purchase. The DEMAND CURVE for a particular product reflects consumers’ satisfactions from consuming it. See WANTS, DEMAND.

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In March, while commemorating the World Tuberculosis Day, the country launched a new paediatric anti-tuberculosis formulation for the treatment of 'drug-susceptible' tuberculosis in children.

Nigeria's Tuberculosis Burden

Tuberculosis remains one of the biggest contributors to the death of most of the women and elderly people in the world but is curable and rarely deadly in infants if diagnosed and treated in time.

A lethal disease

A new treatment for a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis can cure more than 90 percent of sufferers, according to a trial hailed Monday as a "game changer" in the fight against the global killer.