TB deaths among people living with HIV reduced by half.

• TB deaths among people living with HIV reduced by half.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of illness and death for people living with HIV—about one in five of the world’s 1.8 million AIDS-related deaths in 2009 was associated with TB. The majority of people living with HIV and TB are in sub-Saharan Africa.

TB places a heavy burden on people living with HIV including significant illness that requires at a minimum six months of treatment, with the associated economic costs to the individual, his or her family and the health-care system.

UNAIDS calls for effectively integrating delivery of services for HIV and tuberculosis, nutritional support in all settings, as well as continued innovation of TB diagnostic and treatments options.