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.