HIV/AIDS
Reports from South Africa and United States add new data to HIV/AIDS research
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 27th, 2006
Study 1: HIV infection is driving the tuberculosis epidemic in a periurban community in South Africa.
"In August 2005, the World Health Organization declared the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in Africa to be a regional emergency. Current TB-control measures are failing, largely as a result of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic," investigators in South Africa report.
According to S.D. Lawn and colleagues at the University of Cape Town, "Evaluation of additional control interventions requires detailed understanding of the epidemiological...
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