Pune As many as 147 out of the 215 TB patients who died in Pune in 2008 had HIV

The TB-HIV link is getting stronger in Pune. Out of the 215 tuberculosis (TB) patients who died in 2008 in Pune, at least 147 were infected with HIV.

In Pimpri-Chinchwad area, out of the 634 new sputum positive cases of TB, at least 94 have been tested HIV positive.

Around 30 million people of the world breathing their last every year as a result of Tuberculosis while in Pakistan it claims the lives of around 70,000 people in a year.

Mumbai: There is a growing belief among experts that multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR), and its deadlier cousin, the extensively-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR), may soon become bigger threats than HIV-AIDS. Yet these new strains of TB do not find any mention in the national TB control programme. Worse, Mumbai has no accredited laboratory to confirm cases of MDR and XDR TB.

Each year, more than 0.3 million people end up with tuberculosis (TB) in Pakistan, which already ranks eighth among high TB burden countries in the world with an estimated prevalence of 181/100,000.

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Around 2,770 Tuberculosis (TB) deaths were reported in 1990 while in 2008 only 1,685 deaths were reported, a Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said.

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VELLORE: The Christian Medical College Hospital (CMCH), in association with the National TB Division attached to the Union Ministry of Health, is all set to launch a pilot project

Pakistan ranks sixth among the countries with a highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) contributing about 44percent to tuberculosis burden on the Eastern Mediterranean Region. TB is an increasing and major problem globally, especially in the third world countries, including Pakistan, Pakistan Medical Society (PMS) Chairman, Dr Masood Akhtar Sheikh said.

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