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Results from the first ever microbocide trial to go through all phases of research are due to be released early next year. A microbicide is a substance that can be inserted vaginally or anally with the aim of protecting its users from HIV infection.
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As the international community is focusing on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis another rapidly growing epidemic, diabetes, is also demanding attention.
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Improved diagnostics, new medicines for drug resistant TB, the integration of HIV and TB treatment, increased funding and political will are some of the resources needed for a stronger effort against Tuberculosis.
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The French humanitarian agency, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has called for a new approach in dealing with patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis.
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Activists have called for global action to stem the tide of deaths attributed to tuberculosis.
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Clinic fails to test her for TB, Brooklyn refuses to admit her and doctor advises an abortion but Busi Beko and her daughter survive MDR TB.
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Tuberculosis (TB) and its drug resistant strain is out of control in Zimbabwe, advocacy organisations in the country have warned.
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The world is in desperate need of better medicines to deal both with the increase in multi-drug resistant TB and the problem of the co-infection of TB and HIV, say experts.
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Health experts say the high level of tobacco use among South African children of school going age is worrisome.
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Health systems cannot properly diagnose, treat, or contain the co-epidemic of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) because not enough is known about how the two diseases interact.
South Africa’€™s health department has come under fire from activists and HIV/tuberculosis experts for its failure to respond to extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB with claims that one of the critical drugs to stem this epidemic is not available in KwaZulu-Natal, the hotbed of the outbreak.
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Differences between government and AIDS activists are slowing down efforts to reach agreement on a comprehensive plan for HIV and AIDS in prisons.