TB Care Will Save 500,000 Lives in Africa-Experts
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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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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The Group of Eight industrialized nations have struck a deal to increase their global aid for the fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis to $60 billion, a G8 diplomat said on Friday.
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The lives of 500,000 HIV-positive people in Africa could be prolonged each year if they were also treated for tuberculosis (TB), two UN agencies announced on Tuesday.
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Administering co-trimoxazole, a cheap, widely used antibiotic, to HIV-positive children could dramatically cut AIDS-related deaths in Africa.
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African immigrants with low levels of vitamin D are much more likely to be infected with tuberculosis, a finding that suggests the vitamin may help prevent and treat TB, Australian researchers said on Monday.
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The problem of multidrug-resistant TB may be even more severe than previously thought, experts warn.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation  said on Wednesday it was giving $500 million to the Global Fund  to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, by far its biggest grant to the  fund, which says it sorely lacks cash.
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More than 500 million people can  be lifted out of abject poverty, 250 million people will no  longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if  rich countries double development aid over the next 10 years, a  new U.N.-sponsored report said Monday.
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Tuberculosis may reach the point where most new cases in some countries are resistant to many drugs unless far greater efforts are made now.
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Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease, a research group of more than 100 scholars
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The countries plan to raise at least $300 million next year to help pay for the treatment of children with AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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A new, deadly strain of tuberculosis has killed 52 of 53 people infected in the last year in South Africa, the World Health Organization said Friday, calling for improved measures to treat and diagnose the virus.
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WASHINGTON -- Many African countries have sharply reduced the deaths of young children in recent years, saving hundreds of thousands of lives, according to new data from 46 nations that contradict the perception that the world's poorest continent was making little gain against killer diseases.
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A new, untreatable form of tuberculosis is striking up to 30,000 people a year, the World Health Organization said on Friday, and warned it could spark an "apocalyptic scenario" if unchecked.
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WASHINGTON -- The World Bank spent less than 1 percent of its global health money last year on tuberculosis control, despite the growing numbers of AIDS patients in Africa who are dying from tuberculosis, according to a report issued yesterday. The report, by a nonprofit advocacy group, called on the institution to greatly increase efforts to fight the highly contagious ...
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A World Health Organisation study of healthcare in Africa says disease can only be tackled by urgent investment.
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South Africa's health department   has promised to start distribution as early as next week of a   drug to help fight an extremely virulent strain of tuberculosis   that has killed 52 people in the country.