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News Briefs TB a Major Threat, Says UN's LewisOctober 11, 2002 A note from TheBody.com: Since this article was written, the HIV pandemic has changed, as has our understanding of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information! TB kills six of the world's poorest people every minute, yet wealthy Western countries are not adequately funding a global effort to fight the disease, said Stephen Lewis, UN special envoy for AIDS in Africa. Far from being a relic of the past, TB has emerged as a threat primarily in poor countries, where sanitation, water and food are substandard, Lewis told a world conference on lung health Thursday in Montreal. "The impoverishment is like some kind of onslaught on a society that is already deeply and desperately vulnerable," Lewis said. He said the world goal of cutting poverty in half will never be reached "so long as there's this terrible witch's brew between impoverishment and disease." Vancouver Province 10.11.02; Canadian Press A note from TheBody.com: Since this article was written, the HIV pandemic has changed, as has our understanding of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information!  This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. Visit the CDC's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.
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