World AIDS Conference to Focus on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis
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Channel: Voice of America · 2010 · News & Politics
Twenty-five thousand people are expected to gather in Vienna July 18th to 23rd for the World AIDS Conference. Global health experts will focus on a lethal line-up -- HIV/AIDs and tuberculosis. TB is a leading cause of HIV-related deaths worldwide. The World Health Organization says 40 percent of people with TB in South Africa also have HIV. The co-infection rate is highest in the township of Kayelitsha. And, there is a growing threat from multi-drug resistant TB, an aggressive strain that is much more difficult to treat. Debra Daugherty has more.
