| UGANDA: Higher HIV rate cause for concern |
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KAMPALA، 21/3/2012 (PlusNews) - Uganda's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate has risen from 6.4 percent to 6.7 percent, according to a recently released national AIDS Indicator Survey. full report |
| HEALTH: Blueprint for future TB vaccines unveiled |
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JOHANNESBURG، 21/3/2012 (PlusNews) - Almost a century ago, French scientists discovered the world's only tuberculosis (TB) vaccine. Now the World Health Organization warns that without a new one, the world will not win the fight against TB. full report |
| HEALTH: Childhood tuberculosis a “hidden epidemic” |
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NAIROBI/NAROK، 22/3/2012 (PlusNews) - Globally, an estimated 200 children die from tuberculosis every day despite the availability of cheap drugs to prevent and treat this highly infectious condition, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said. full report |
| SOUTH AFRICA: Children with TB below the health radar |
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YSTERPLAAT، 23/3/2012 (PlusNews) - To a casual observer the two dozen children running round in the grassy schoolyard look like ordinary kids playing, but the surrounding buildings are the wards of the Brooklyn Chest Hospital (BCH), which specializes in treating severe cases of tuberculosis (TB), a disease rarely associated with children. full report |
| UGANDA: Senior health officials suspended amid TB drug shortage |
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KAMPALA/GULU، 23/3/2012 (PlusNews) - Uganda's Minister of Health, Christine Ondoa, has suspended several senior health officials, including the managers of the national HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis programmes, for poor performance and drug shortages. full report |
| HIV/AIDS: Activists call for emergency Global Fund donor meeting |
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JOHANNESBURG، 23/3/2012 (PlusNews) - Almost a thousand Swazi and South African HIV activists marched to the United States consulate in Johannesburg on 22 March 2012 to demand that the US continue supporting the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, and safeguard funding of its President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which US President Barack Obama's latest proposed budget will cut by 12 percent. full report |
| SOUTHERN AFRICA: TB preventative therapy scorecard |
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JOHANNESBURG، 23/3/2012 (PlusNews) - Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading killer of HIV-positive people globally. Almost 15 years ago the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDS recommended that people living with HIV be given isoniazid preventative TB therapy (IPT), to prevent active TB, but national implementation of IPT has been slow. full report |