UNAIDS strategy goal by 2015:
- TB deaths among people living with HIV reduced by half.
Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of illness and death for people living with HIV—about one in five of the world’s 1.8 million AIDS-related deaths in 2009 was associated with TB. The majority of people living with HIV and TB are in sub-Saharan Africa. TB places a heavy burden on people living with HIV including significant illness that requires at a minimum six months of treatment, with the associated economic costs to the individual, his or her family and the health-care system. UNAIDS calls for effectively integrating delivery of services for HIV and tuberculosis, nutritional support in all settings, as well as continued innovation of TB diagnostic and treatments options.
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