sub-Saharan Africa
Nov 2 2007, Irani

Already struggling with HIV for decades, trying to snatch life from the deadly ailment, the sub-Saharan Africans now have yet another monster to fight away — tuberculosis.

The region being undoubtedly the most affected by the virus, inhabited by...

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