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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2005;293:2707.

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In a world where most regions are seeing steady or falling case rates of tuberculosis (TB), Africa remains the exception. Public health professionals hope to change that.

Meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last month, the global Stop TB Partnership, a network of international organizations, countries, donors, and others, unveiled its "Road Map" to halt Africa’s surging TB epidemic (http://www.stoptb.org). The disease, in combination with HIV, is overwhelming many health services on the continent.

Incidence rates of TB have tripled since 1990 in 21 African countries with high levels of HIV, according to the World Health Organization. Of the 15 counties in the world with the highest TB rates, 13 are in Africa. An estimated 2.4 million Africans become infected and 540 000 die annually from the disease. The economic toll from TB is also devastating, with an estimated annual lose of between 4% and 7% in gross . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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