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The New York Times: “TB Patients chafe under lockdown in South Africa.” (March 25, 2008).
The New York Times: “In South Africa, TB patients behind barbed wire.” (March 24, 2008).
CBS News: “Worst fears realized in South African TB scare.” (May 31, 2007).
The New York Times: “Virulent TB in South Africa may imperil millions.” (January 28, 2007).
Newsweek: “Old bugs learn some new tricks.” (December 11, 2006).
The New York Times: “Extreme Tuberculosis.” (September 14, 2006).
Guardian: “Rocked by AIDS, Zulu kingdom now faces even worse foe: incurable TB.” (September 13, 2006).
Mail & Guardian: “’True outbreak’ of TB super bug at Tugela Ferry.” (September 7, 2006).
CBSNews: “Super-strain Of TB found In South Africa” (September 06, 2006).
ABC News: “Extremely resistant TB emerges in South Africa.” (August 18, 2006).
National Public Radio: “Resistant TB strikes South Africans with HIV.” (August 18, 2006).
ABC News: “Extremely resistant TB emerges in South Africa.” (August 18, 2006).
The New York Times: “Doctors warn of powerful and resistant Tuberculosis strain.” (August 18, 2006).
Wall Street Journal: “Researchers report emergence of super-resistant TB strain.” (August 18, 2006).
The Washington Post: “South Africans with AIDS see ray of hope.” (November 30, 2004).
National Public Radio: “New Drug-Resistant TB Strain Menaces US.” (March 24, 2006).
Time: “Death stalks a continent.” (February 12, 2001).

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TB Facts

In some countries, loss of productivity attributable to TB approaches 7% of GDP.
13 of the 15 countries with the highest estimated TB incidence rates are in Africa.
In some TB hot-spots, up to 30% of patients are infected with drug-resistant strains.
TB is the third leading cause of death worldwide among women aged 15-44.
The WHO calculates that the average TB patient loses three to four months of work-time and up to 30 percent of yearly household earnings.
Someone in the world is newly infected with TB every second.
94 percent of TB cases and 98 percent of TB deaths occur in developing countries.
One-third of the more than 40 million people living with HIV/AIDS are also infected with tuberculosis.
TB is the leading infectious killer of people with HIV/AIDS, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where it causes up to half of all AIDS deaths.
TB will rob the world’s poorest countries of an estimated $1 to $3 trillion over the next 10 years.
At any given moment, more than 13 million people around the world are suffering from an active TB infection.
490,000 new MDR-TB cases are estimated to occur each year.
Extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) occurs when resistance to second-line drugs develops.
58 countries have reported at least one case of XDR-TB as of March 2010.
More than two billion people, one third of the world’s population, are infected with TB.
TB kills someone approximately every 20 seconds.
An estimated 31 percent of all TB-HIV cases in Africa are in South Africa.
South Africa ranked fifth on the list of 22 high-burden tuberculosis (TB) countries in the world.
TB is the leading cause of death in South Africa.
Among women, TB accounts for more deaths than all causes of maternal mortality.
Curing MDR-TB can cost 1400 times more than curing drug susceptible TB.
Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) is a form of TB that does not respond to the standard treatments using first-line drugs.
An estimated 73 percent of new TB patients in South Africa are co-infected with HIV.
If not treated, each person with active TB can infect 10 to 15 people a year.
TB is preventable and curable.
There are thought to be 25,000 cases of XDR-TB emerging every year.

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A nurse prepares an injection in a patient's home

A training is conducted outside to reduce the risk of TB transmission