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UN Hosts Meeting To Confront HIV/AIDS, TB Infections

June 10, 2008

The United Nations set to hold a meeting on Tuesday to try and confront the growing number of TB and HIV/AIDS co-infections..Boston (ChattahBox) - The United Nations set to hold a meeting on Tuesday to try and confront the growing number of TB and HIV/AIDS co-infections.

According to reports, 14 million people around the world are infected with both diseases. The meeting on Tuesday, the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS, will confront this problem and gain worldwide attention to it.

TB, which was cured years ago, is beginning to pop up in multi-drug resistant strains, causing many more deaths to those who have HIV.

A person with HIV is 50 times more likely to develop TB, putting those people at a very high risk for developing both.

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