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Double impact of TB and AIDS threatens millions

    JOHANNESBURG

    The international NGO, Medecins San Frontieres (MSF,) has called for "massive" global investment in TB treatment and testing to alleviate the double impact of drug-resistant TB and HIV that is threatening millions.

    According to MSF, developing countries rely on tuberculosis detection methods developed in 1882, and treatments are based on medicines that are at least 40 years old.

    MSF adviser Francine Matthys said in a statement: "Massive investment in developing new diagnostic tests and drugs is needed now, so that we can effectively diagnose and treat all those with TB in the shortest possible time."

    The UN estimates that up to 500,000 HIV-positive Africans die each year because health authorities have failed to coordinate the fight against the two illnesses.

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