Call for joint HIV and TB care
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Health experts say combining TB and HIV testing and treatment could save the lives of 500,000 HIV positive Africans a year.
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The spread of HIV and AIDS across Africa is fueling the rise of another deadly disease that many thought was on the decline: tuberculosis.
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Health ministers and experts from across Europe are meeting in Lithuania to discuss efforts to prevent an epidemic of HIV/Aids. They will debate an EU report which says rates of new infections in Russia and ...
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Millions of people with HIV will die unless it is made easier for them to get the drugs they need, experts warn.
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African leaders call for more funds to fight the world's deadliest diseases - Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
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Old drugs, outdated tests, empty promises, new threats. Such is the bleak reality surrounding an international tuberculosis conference opening Thursday in a city scarred by a killer combination of TB and AIDS: an already nightmarish scenario worsened by the spread of virtually untreatable strains.
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Experts at a seminar yesterday urged the government to incorporate the HIV/Aids issue into primary and secondary textbooks to create awareness about the disease at the grassroots level.
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The number of AIDS cases in Singapore has risen to record highs this year. The country wants to make it compulsory for pregnant women to have HIV/AIDS screening.
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A leading HIV charity calls for an overhaul of sexual health services to bring infection rates in Wales down.
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Urgent action is needed to deal with the rise in TB cases after rates in some parts of the UK doubled, doctors say.
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As many as half a million lives  could be saved every year in Africa if governments combine  their approach to tackle a rampant AIDS epidemic with measures  to treat tuberculosis, health experts said on Tuesday.
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Tests and medicines used to diagnose and combat tuberculosis (TB) in poor countries are outdated and ineffective and new treatments must be developed to fight the disease, Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The spread of HIV and AIDS is fuelling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next two decades, the UN warned yesterday.
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Sweden has announced a new contribution to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in response to an urgent appeal from former President Nelson Mandela and rock star Bono, according to the government news agency, BuaNews.
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Nigeria is appealing for US$248 million to help it provide subsidised antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for 200,000 people living with HIV/AIDS by the end of 2005, Health Minister Eyitayo Lambo said.
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Health professionals should routinely offer to test people for HIV instead of waiting for patients to request it, according to new advice from the United Nations Wednesday.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Sept. 20, 2004 - The spread of HIV/AIDS is fueling a massive tuberculosis crisis that could see one billion people infected in the next 20 years, the UN warned Monday.