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The Phase IV trial started in June 2006 to treat patients simultaneously for both TB and HIV has returned some important results. The trial once again reinforced the need to treat the afflicted for both the diseases simultaneously.

NEW DELHI: A crucial finding by clinicians in Mexico, the country where the deadly H1N1 flu virus originated, could have India worried.

President Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to spend $63 billion over the next six years on a new, broader global health strategy that would reshape one of the signature foreign policy efforts of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

Globally a third of total HIV positive people are affected by tuberculosis, a bacteria-borne disease that affects nearly 300,000 people and kills 70,000 annually in Bangladesh.

"Bangladesh ranks five among the 22 high burden TB countries in the world," Professor Dr Pravat Chandra Barua, Line-Director of National TB and Leprosy Elimination Programme, said here on Monday.

With the rising temperature, most people are worried how to deal with the spreading viral fever, but a medicine specialist says the best way is to take complete bed rest to get rid of it.

"Complete bed rest is usually called the actual treatment of viral fever, Dr M Foyjul Islam Chowdhury, Associate Professor (Medicine) of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) told the UNB correspondent.

A vaccine for tuberculosis, developed by the Oxford University, has started undergoing clinical trials, making a new vaccine for the disease a possibility.

Health oriented: M. Jayaraman, Collector, right, holding the WHO

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THE State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has ordered the state government to cough out Rs 90 lakh to revive the ailing tuberculosis sanatorium at Arangaon in Ahmednagar following a complaint filed by a local activist.

Set up on an enormous 25acre land and catering only to the destitute, the tuberculosis sanatorium is in a pathetic state.

Chandigarh: Chandigarh has been adjudged among the top five performing states and union territories in the country by TB India-2008 RNTCP (Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme) status report, brought out by the Union Health Ministry. The treatment success rate of tuberculosis for the year in Chandigarh was 86 per cent.

Following up: A WHO team inspected facilities at Government Medical College Hospital in Salem on Friday.

SALEM: A six-member team from World Health Organisation (WHO) reviewed the implementation of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme at Salem Government Medical College Hospital and various other parts in the district on Friday.