A regional tuberculosis health emergency is expected to be announced by the World Health Organization.
The AIDS epidemic is increasing the spread of TB, which kills some 1,500 Africans every day, as TB rates steadily rise in Africa and parts of Eastern Europe.
Africa is significantly affected because of co-infections with HIV and the lack of a proper health infrastructure to monitor and treat the disease.
The WHO hopes that by making the disease a regional health emergency, it will put the disease back on the public agenda.
