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Can mass isoniazid preventive therapy be used to control the TB-HIV epidemic in Africa?

Posted on February 24, 2014 by

“We cannot win the battle against AIDS if we do not also fight TB”, Nelson Mandela has famously said.  His insistence on the importance of TB is understandable, when it is remembered that 82% of all cases of TB-HIV co-infection are concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, and many Africans infected with HIV die from TB (STI/ […]

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