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HIV/AIDS Co-Infection
Study data from P.V.D. Shetty et al provide new insights into HIV/AIDS co-infection
April 15th, 2008
"India has a high tuberculosis (TB) burden, with 1.8 million new cases per year. Although an estimated 2.5 million people are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the national HIV prevalence is < 1%," researchers in Bombay, India report. "India's size and diverse TB-HIV epidemiology pose a major challenge to the implementation of links between TB and HIV/AIDS programme services. A pilot cross-referral initiative was instituted between voluntary counselling and testing centres (VCT) and the diagnostic and treatment facilities of the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) in four districts of Maharashtra, India. To detect TB disease among VCT...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-15)
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