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HIV/AIDS linked to extensively drug resistant TB

A highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis (TB) has been linked to HIV/AIDS in a study conducted in rural South Africa by researchers at Yale School of Medicine.

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1. Experts urge strongest isolation for new drug-resistant tuberculosis cases appearing in South Africa
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   Medical ethics and other experts say tough isolation measures, involuntary if need be, are justified to contain a very deadly, highly-contagious and drug-resistant mutant strains of tuberculosis and to prevent "a potentially explosive international health crisis" brewing most dangerously at the epicenter of South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic. The new TB variations now defeat many of the world's existing drugs and pose "extreme risk."
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10. Keeping young South Africans in school: A 'social vaccine' against AIDS
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