The UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) on Monday approved USD$6.72 million in “underfunded emergency” funding to three UN organizations, according to the CERF website.

Receiving the bulk of the new funds at USD$3.478 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) will see a much-needed boost for tuberculosis treatment efforts, which lost a major source of funding earlier this year with the Global Fund’s surprise withdrawal from DPRK operations.

The report on CERF’s website said the money was approved for WHO projects to ensure “availability of MDR TB (tuberculosis) medicines, critical, life-saving emergency care medicines, TB diagnostics and their access to