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Examining the Need for TB Indicators, Activities in Global AIDS Response Blueprint

October 24, 2012

In a post in the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog, Lucica Ditiu, executive secretary of the Stop TB Partnership, examines the need to include tuberculosis (TB) in the global AIDS response blueprint that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced at the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), writing, "At present one in four AIDS-related deaths is precipitated by TB. ... All people living with HIV need to get tested for TB and receive TB treatment if they have the disease." She continues, "We urge PEPFAR to include in the blueprint explicit TB/HIV indicators and activities," and she provides five examples (10/23).

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