Wednesday, August 29, 2007

WHO unveils strategy to curb AIDS/TB

Brazzaville, Congo - The World Health Organisation (WHO) Tuesday in Brazzaville, Congo, unveiled a strategy to control tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Africa, an official source disclosed here.

The strategy, developed by the WHO Regional Bureau for Africa, highlights key interventions for enhancing the collaboration between tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS control programmes, and for reducing the tuberculosis burden among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).

It is based on seven key points, including development of the collaboration mechanism between programmes to control tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, promotion of the prevention, screening and curing these two diseases, greater access of TB patients to HIV/AIDS screening services and integration of control measures in joint interventions between TB and AIDS. read more

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