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Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 02:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
104 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Tuberculosis (TB) infects 1.6 million people and kills 600,000 others in Africa every year, making the disease one of the most common preventable causes of death from a single infectious agent in the Region, according to a report issued on World TB Day by the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa.

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Food & Health [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/14047 [5]

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