http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/03/24/world-tb-awareness-day-march-24th/ The largest network of Foreign Policy blogs Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:15:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/03/24/world-tb-awareness-day-march-24th/#comment-1209 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:22:55 +0000 http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/03/24/world-tb-awareness-day-march-24th/#comment-1209 A UN meeting in June will examine the worrisome links between tuberculosis and HIV and how best to help millions of people who have both diseases, Jorge Sampaio, the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to Stop TB, said March 25. "What we need from that meeting is to come out of it with a common strategy to scale up efforts to systematically address HIV-TB co-infection," Sampaio said. Between 12 million and 15 million people are infected with both HIV and TB, or about one-third of all people living with HIV, Sampaio said. The disease is among the leading killers of people with HIV, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). A UN meeting in June will examine the worrisome links between tuberculosis and HIV and how best to help millions of people who have both diseases, Jorge Sampaio, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy to Stop TB, said March 25. “What we need from that meeting is to come out of it with a common strategy to scale up efforts to systematically address HIV-TB co-infection,” Sampaio said. Between 12 million and 15 million people are infected with both HIV and TB, or about one-third of all people living with HIV, Sampaio said. The disease is among the leading killers of people with HIV, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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