The Double Burden of HIV Infection and Tuberculosis in Sub-Saharan Africa

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that by June 1996 14 million people were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in sub-Saharan Africa. Although it contains only 10 percent of the world's population, sub-Saharan Africa is home to about 65 percent of all the world's HIV-infected people. In several urban centers, more than 10 percent of the asymptomatic adults and about 15 to 30 percent of the women attending prenatal-care clinics are infected. A 1994 paper reported that in rural Uganda more than 80 percent of the deaths among men and women 25 to 44 years of age were . . .