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Reports from University College Hospital Highlight Recent Research in HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 26th, 2011

2011 SEP 26 -- Current study results from the report, "Five year review of treatment outcome of directly observed therapy (DOT) for re-treatment pulmonary tuberculosis patients in UCH, Ibadan, Nigeria," have been published. According to the authors of a study from Ibadan, Nigeria, "Tuberculosis (TB) is a major health problem in Nigeria. The country is currently fourth among the 22 high-burden countries (HBCs) of the world, with an incident of all new cases of 311/100,000 population per year out of which 137/100,000 population are smear positive and prevalence of 616/100,000 population."

"To highlight the burden of re-treatment smear positive pulmonary TB...

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