will also get other services including screening for blood pressure, blood sugar and TB.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The son probably died of TB, but it related to all this other business in his weakened state.

他最终可能死于肺结核,但这也和他一落千丈的地位有关

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Multidrug resistant tuberculosis,or MDR-TB, will not get better with antibiotics normally used for tuberculosis.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Now,researchers say they have found a much faster way to identify drug-resistant TB.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

The number of deaths from TB is dropping around the world.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The bacteria that cause TB usually settle in the lungs.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

"We must intensify our prevention efforts if we are to turn off the tap of new HIV and TB infections.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

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

VOA: standard.2010.05.29

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

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

And it's people like Gladys Jaxa, says Dr.Marcos Espinal of the Stop TB Partnership, who would benefit.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

We need to challenge governments, decision-makers and community leaders to stand together to fight TB and eventually wipe out this devastating disease."

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

She buys the ingredients with her own money and makes sure that TB patients have something to eat before taking their medicine.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

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

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

If she lapses,she could infect one or two of whom may develop full blown TB or MDR-TB.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

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

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

While researchers continue to work on vaccines, the key is to raise awareness around treating TB.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

Last year,he says nearly 1.5-million TB patients were tested for HIV, an increase of 200,000.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Here, Dr.Sizulu Moyo and other researchers are trying to develop vaccines to prevent TB.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

He says the tuberculosis epidemic is far from over and is being aggravated by multi-drug resistant TB and its even more dangerous form, extensively drug-resistant TB.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"No one today need die of TB." "No child should see the life of a mother or father destroyed by a disease that is completely curable.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

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.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

As a consequence of the screening, he says many TB patients with HIV have been treated for that fatal disease and many lives have been prolonged and saved.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The problem? It often takes more than two months to diagnose MDR-TB.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

She has MDR-TB and now is dependent on Mercy Nongongo for medicine.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

On the other side of town, scientists are working on a genetic test they hope will cut the time it takes to diagnose MDR-TB from 70 days to two days.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

DOTS,the Stop TB Strategy was launched in 1994.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

It's a virulent strain that occurs when a person with TB fails to complete the six to nine-month course of medication or catches TB from another person who is ill with a drug resistant-strain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

Dr.Sweetness Siwendu treats TB patients at Site C Clinic: "It would be really great if we could have a vaccine - and if not, then at least be able to diagnose TB as soon as possible - preferably within the same day."

VOA: standard.2010.07.12