Yogan Pillay is acting director of the National Department of Health that oversees the HIV/AIDS and TB epidemics in South Africa.

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"They believe in me." TB has a firm grip on the township of Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town.

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Coordinator of the WHO Stop TB Department,Paul Nunn, says progress also has been made in addressing the lethal combination of TB and HIV.

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The clinic has seen an increase in the number of people with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis or MDR TB.

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Another problem is money. The World Health Organization says the Stop TB effort needs $2 billion to carry out its TB care and control program in 2010.

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DOTS,the Stop TB Strategy was launched in 1994.

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