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New Vision (Kampala) - December 2, 2007
The report called for urgent measures to curb the spread. Such measures include: fast diagnosis of TB in HIV; new methods to map HIV and TB hotspots and screening to identify cases of drug-resistant TB.
A third of the world's 40 million HIV/AIDS patients have TB and the death rate for those infected with both is five times higher than that for TB alone.
"Now the eye of the storm is in sub-Saharan Africa, where half of new TB cases are HIV co-infected," said Veronica Miller, director of The Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, which issued the study.
"A new TB infection occurs every second and much of this transmission occurs in areas with high HIV prevalence. The danger of a global co-epidemic is clear," said Diane Havlir, head of the World Health Organisation's TB/HIV working group.
There are about 9,000,000 new cases of TB worldwide annually, according to WHO.
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