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When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. Instead, she found herself so severely ostracized, she felt she had to move out.
TANZANIA is one of the 22 countries with the highest Tuberculosis burden in the world, despite having a well-functioning TB programme, based on World Health Organisation (WHO) strategy for the last 25 years.
The United Nations-backed Global Fund has approved new grants worth $2.4 billion for projects aimed at fighting AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in low-income countries over the next two years.
Programmes supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria reported 2.3 million people on life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in June 2009.
Swaziland not only has the world's highest HIV prevalence rate, it now also has the highest tuberculosis (TB) rate, but health officials warn that not enough is being done to integrate TB and HIV services.
