The [him] moderator thinks the DVB misinterpreted the valid quote from the staff person at the Three Diseases Fund. Khin Swe Win said the number of deaths from malaria and TB (including those associated with HIV) were higher, NOT that there was an overemphasis on HIV/AIDS.

DVB should be more careful in their reporting.

[him] moderator

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Doctor warns tuberculosis is a greater threat than HIV/AIDS
Khin Maung Soe Min
March 26
Democratic Voice of Burma

A doctor from a leading medical fund has claimed that an over-emphasis on HIV/AIDS in Burma has ignored the threat posed by tuberculosis.

Dr Khin Swe Win of the Three Diseases Fund, which aims to reduce cases of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Burma, has said the country is in
need of financial help to combat tuberculosis and has urged the international community to increase its awareness of the disease.

'Now people's attention is on HIV/AIDS but, in reality, most of the deaths in our country are caused first by malaria and then tuberculosis second,'
he said.

'The AIDS-related death rate is lower than these two.'

The rate of tuberculosis infection along the Burma-India border has been on the rise over the last decade, said Dr Aung Kyaw Oo, western Burma
region chair of the exiled National Health and Education Committee.

'About 10 years ago we found one or two people per village were infected with the TB virus and now about one-third of the population of every
village is carrying the disease,' he said.

'It is partly because the government/s anti-TB campaigns are not reaching these areas.'

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