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WHO, UNAIDS call for strong collaboration in AIDS programs in Myanmar

Xinhua, February 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

The World Health Organization and UNAIDS has called for strong collaboration between national Tuberculosis and AIDS programs in Myanmar aimed at strengthening the mechanisms for delivering integrated TB and HIV services, according to a press release of WHO and UNAIDS on Tuesday.

In an in-depth review of the current status of TB and HIV in Myanmar by WHO and UNAIDS, both organizations also stressed to reduce the burden of TB in HIV-infected individuals, said the release.

Myanmar has made impressive progress in the fight against HIV and TB, successfully halting and reversing the spread of the diseases in line with the 2015 Millennium Development Goals, according to the review.

Myanmar Ministry of Health is stepping up efforts to tackle the combined epidemic of HIV and TB in the country.

Meanwhile, co-infection of TB and HIV was responsible for around 4,100 deaths in Myanmar in 2014 out of the estimated 32,000 deaths for all TB forms. Enditem