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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.
Global Health Initiatives (GHI) funding for HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has had positive impacts on overall health sector financing and related reforms, among them significant increases in resources for the health sector and the ability to afford expensive, but life-saving technologies and interventions.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in its largest-ever malaria initiative, will provide 30 million long-lasting treated mosquito nets to Nigeria, a move applauded by the official tasked with spearheading United Nations efforts to tackle the disease.
An HIV/AIDS opportunistic disease, Tuberculosis thought to be gradually fading out of the country may be staging a dangerous comeback with the discovery of Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) types currently being reported in some health care delivery institutions.
