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Published online 17 August 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060814-10
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Curbing AIDS epidemic means treating TB
Study shows life-saving potential of dual treatment.
A huge and growing tuberculosis (TB) epidemic threatens to crush the world's efforts to fight AIDS, health officials, scientists and activists warned at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada, this Wednesday.
One-third of people infected with HIV are also infected with TB, which is the leading killer of AIDS patients.
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