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HIV/AIDS Co-Infection Epidemiology
Researchers from Imperial College London, Imperial College discuss findings in HIV/AIDS co-infection epidemiology
March 11th, 2008
Researchers detail in 'Resistance to implementing policy change: the case of Ukraine,' new data in HIV/AIDS co-infection. "Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in eastern Europe. Since 1990, the incidence rates of TB have continued to increase in Belarus, the Russian Federation, the Ukraine and the central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan," scientists in London, the United Kingdom report. "Eastern Europe, and in particular the Russian Federation and the Ukraine, also face the public health challenge of an escalating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) epidemic. Of the 17 283 global MDR-TB cases reported in 2004,...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-03-11)
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