Testing for tuberculosis, HIV co-infection
hindu.com     May 22, 2008            

Routine referral programme will greatly improve the detection rate of both the diseases A programme to routinely test patients infected with HIV for TB and vice versa has taken off in Tamil Nadu from January this year. There are 760 Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centres (VCTC) that test for... [read full story]                    


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