TB

Living with HIV and TB

UN says TB treatment plus HIV tests could save half-million African lives annually

21 September 2004
Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV pose a deadly combination for millions of people in Africa, but a coordinated assault on both diseases can save up to 500,000 lives a year on the continent, experts gathered in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa said today, according to the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO).

New control strategy cuts TB rates in China by a third – WHO

30 July 2004
China – one the world’s largest countries affected by tuberculosis – has seen a 30 per cent drop in the occurrence of the disease since the introduction of a new control strategy in the last decade, putting it on track to meet the worldwide goal of cutting in half the incidences of the illness by 2015, the United Nations health agency said today.

UN health agency scaling up measures to help those with both HIV and TB

21 January 2004
With some 14 million people worldwide suffering from both HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today issued guidelines to increase collaboration between national TB and HIV/AIDS programmes.