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Contributor [1]
Thursday, April 10, 2003 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
106 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Treatment success and case detection rates for tuberculosis (TB) have improved appreciably in Africa since 1993 when the disease was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO), but the current indicators in the region still fall short of global targets, a WHO official has said in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Category: 
Global South [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/14419 [5]

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