Africa's Co-epidemic

If having HIV is not enough to worry about Africa has a new epidemic on the rise called Tuberculosis also referred to as TB. Tuberculosis is an upper respiratory disease in which the person can obtain by breathing in tiny particles of the infection. This disease can be treated with prescriptions in most cases but, in parts of Africa the TB strain is drug resistant. More than twenty percent of the world population has TB but will never show symptoms of it.

The new epidemic is coming fast in areas with high HIV cases. Half of all new tuberculosis cases are also infected with HIV. It has been said to be prevalent in Africa’s poorer neighborhoods but now spreading into the healthier ones. Without treatment of tuberculosis, ninety percent of people infected with both the diseases will die within months.