Starving TB and Aids of cash kills thousands

Failure by donors and implementing countries to invest more in tuberculosis and HIV may thwart efforts to end both epidemics, resulting in thousands of otherwise preventable deaths.

Tuberculosis is currently the leading cause of deaths among people living with HIV even though it is preventable and treatable. According to a report titled From Rhetoric to Reality, launched by Global Health Partnership during the 20th International Aids Conference in Melbourne, Australia, 320,000 people living with HIV died of the airborne disease in 2012.