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World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
…the most common presenting illness among people living with HIV. At least one third of the 34 million people living with HIV worldwide are infected with TB. These coinfected persons are 21-34 times more likely to develop active TB disease than persons without HIV. TB is the leadi…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Western Pacific
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
The rapid growth of the HIV epidemic in many countries has resulted in an equally dramatic rise in TB, even in countries with well-organized national TB control programmes, that are successfully implementing the DOTS strategy. The importance of surveillance of HIV among TB patien…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
…eening for infectious and non-infectious diseases including HIV, malaria and detection of HPV for cervical cancer. The TB platform was completed in 2009 and is considered an important breakthrough in the fight against TB. For the first time, a molecular test is simple and robust …
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
…hensive package of interventions for those affected by both HIV and TB. The long-term goal is to eliminate TB as a public health problem. Given the nature of the TB epidemic, increased and sustained commitment will be needed, from all stakeholders, including national governments …
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
…ed concurrently with the Eighteenth Meeting of the National HIV/AIDS Programme Managers to allow for a day for both programmes to jointly review the progress and challenges and discuss next steps to scale up a comprehensive package of interventions for HIV-associated TB in Member…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
…anaging multi- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, HIV-associated TB. The specific objectives of this meeting were to review progress and constraints in implementing the Stop TB strategy in Member States of the SEA Region; and provide guidance on adopting and applying th…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
…ti- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, as well as HIV-associated TB. The specific objectives of this meeting were to review progress and constraints in implementing the Stop TB strategy in Member States of the SEA Region; and provide guidance on adopting and applying th…
World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
…ng and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS, TB and malaria. The Global Fund provides funding in support of technically sound and cost-effective interventions for the prevention, treatment, care and support of persons infected and affected by HIV/AIDS…