AIDS Crisis Fueling Explosion of TB Cases
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic is contributing to a tuberculosis crisis that could see 1 billion people infected with TB within two decades, the United Nations warned on Monday.
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The number of HIV/AIDS cases in China is increasing at a rapid rate of 40 percent a year, a health ministry official was cited as saying by state media.
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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 number of AIDS patients receiving  life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000  from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday,  but warned much more needed to be done.
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THE number of cases of HIV diagnosed in Scotland reached a record high over the summer, according to figures released yesterday. In all 105 diagnoses were reported to the Scottish
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Mumbai, Nov. 24: The number of women infected with HIV has gone up alarmingly in all parts of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increase in east Asia, followed by eastern Europe and central
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Two separate studies by U.S. researchers find that super drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis are at the tipping point of a global epidemic, and only small changes could help them spread quickly.
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A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis may have spread the disease to passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month
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HIV infection is rising in every region of the world and most worryingly in countries like Uganda and Thailand, which had been heralded as success stories in the fight against AIDS, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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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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There is a tuberculosis alert at the Causeway Hospital, after a member of staff contracts a rare form of the disease.
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Aids activist Zackie Achmat has joined the chorus of calls for TB treatment to be combined with HIV testing and anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, echoing claims that it could save the lives of up to 500 000 HIV-infected Africans a year.
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For a disease that scientists conquered 40 years ago, tuberculosis has made an astonishing comeback. Today relatively recent strains of TB that resist antibiotics have driven
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Singapore is facing a new AIDS epidemic, with the country&#39;s gay community being blamed by the conservative government. According to the Reuters news agency, new cases of HIV could hit more than 1,000 a year in the very near future.
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Scientists have found evidence of a peril that human ancestors encountered in their migrations out of Africa: tuberculosis.
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FRANCISTOWN, Botswana -- The young and hip at ground zero of the AIDS epidemic meet, drink and pair off under the knowing gaze of bartender Brian Khumalo. Sometimes they first buy a three-pack of condoms from the box he keeps by the liquor, sometimes not.
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Despite a spurt in international spending against AIDS, the epidemic will claim more than 3 million lives this year and is threatening the world&#39;s most populous nations, global health authorities warned Tuesday.