WHO: 25% of global TB cases with AIDS-related deaths
At 9:48 on March 26, 2009 Source: Xinhuanet
Published on the 24th World Health Organization survey, the global TB deaths at about one-quarter of cases of AIDS-related, which is twice the original forecast.

The third held in Rio de Janeiro "Stop TB Partnership Forum" period, the World Health Organization issued the "2009 Global TB Control Report." The report notes that the global control of TB in significant progress has been made, the world's new TB cases in 2007, remained stable all over the world the proportion of the population suffering from tuberculosis are also the first time since 2004 fell.

The report also pointed out that the TB / HIV dual infection are the current global TB prevention and control work of the greatest challenges. 2007 HIV-infected persons worldwide to add 1.37 million TB cases, of which 456,000 people died, this figure accounted for the total number of global TB deaths of a quarter can be said that a quarter of the world's tuberculosis deaths are AIDS - relevant.

World Health Organization report also estimated that in 2007 the world has more than 500,000 people suffering from drug-resistant tuberculosis, of which only 1% of patients are in accordance with the organization's recommended standard treatment.

March 24 this year, the fourteenth "World TB Day." According to statistics, the number of the current global tuberculosis infection more than two billion, of which one-tenth are probably the incidence of TB patients or persons.