The close of 2007 witnessed almost 3 million people in developing nations receiving anti-retroviral (ART) treatment, but nearly twice that number still require life-saving medicines, a United Nations study said.

Almost one-third of the estimated 9.7 million people in need of ART received it by the end of 2007, leaving nearly 7 million without access, The study report, entitled "Towards Universal Access: Scaling Up Priority HIV/AIDS Interventions in the Health Sector," added

Two Bahraini inmates are suffering from Tuberculosis (TB) because of what a human rights group claims is a result of mixing healthy inmates with those suffering from contagious diseases.

The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society(BHRWS) has taken up the case of the two inmates and has formed a committee with the family members demanding fair trial

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to spend $50 billion to battle HIV/Aids in the next five years. The bipartisan measure was passed by 308 to 116 votes in an effort to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS around the world, and fight tuberculosis and malaria.

The bill marks a huge increase from the $15 billion authorized during the first five years in 2003. The bill extends President Bush's program called PEPFAR (President's Emergency Program For AIDS Relief) for another five years. The initiative would be the largest U.S. investment ever against a single disease

The World Health Organization is marking World Tuberculosis Day Monday (March 24), calling on individuals to work on the elimination of the roots of the tuberculosis epidemic to fight the disease.

An estimated 1.5 million people died from tuberculosis in 2006 and a report in the New England Journal of Medicine says. Africa may be facing the worst tuberculosis epidemic since the invention of antibiotics

Cases of tuberculosis missing detection are slowing down efforts to cut new infections by 2015, especially in India and China, says the World Health Organization in its report on global tuberculosis control in Geneva.

In 2006, the detection rate went down to 3 percent from 6 percent between 2001 and 2005. For every five TB cases diagnosed globally, four cases were not detected. The WHO estimates that only 61 percent of all TB cases worldwide are registered