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Contributor [1]
Monday, July 24, 2006 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
265 [3]
Article-Summary: 

One in 3 deaths of people with HIV/AIDS is caused by TB. There have been 21 new HIV drugs for every one new TB drug since 1986; the test for TB is 100 years old, and the vaccine being used today is the same as it was 80 years ago.

Category: 
Global South [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/36136 [5]

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