Deaths from AIDS-related tuberculosis fold in 2007, says WHO
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Flávia Villela
Reporter Agency Brazil
Rio de Janeiro - A study released today (24) notes that in 2007, were recorded 1.4 million new cases of tuberculosis in people infected by the HIV virus. In the same year were recorded 456 thousand deaths from tuberculosis associated with HIV - the number two times larger than the previous year.
The data are part of the Report on Global Tuberculosis Control 2009 released today (24), World Tuberculosis Day, the World Health Organization in Rio de Janeiro, during the 3rd World Forum of Stop TB Partners.
According to the director of the department to Combat Tuberculosis World Health Organization (WHO), Mario Raviglione, this does not mean that the actual number of cases has doubled between 2006 and 2007 but an increase in HIV testing among patients with tuberculosis especially in Africa.
"Still, the number is very worrying. At least a third of the nearly 33 million people who have HIV are infected with the TB bacterium and is the leading cause of deaths in people with HIV. It is essential that countries combining the treatments of HIV and turbeculose "called.
Raviglione lauded the Brazilian program to combat AIDS which, he says, is exemplary and innovative.
According to the director of the National Program to Combat Tuberculosis in the Ministry of Health, Dráurio Barrier, unlike most countries, Brazil has not increased the number of people with AIDS infected with tuberculosis.
"We were pioneers in universal access to antiretroviral treatment. And we know that treating AIDS prevents tuberculosis. Furthermore, we have the two programs as a priority the prophylaxis and control of co-infection of TB-AIDS. And because we anticipate, we have happily co-infection rates much lower than the rest of the world. "
Tuberculosis is a contagious disease, transmitted by cough, sneeze and talk of a person infected by the bacillus of Koch.
Source: Agência Brasil
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