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Mon, 24 Mar 2003

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Photo A: TB

JP/Mulkan Salmona

A health worker at a tuberculosis clinic in Jakarta provides visitors with information on TB. It is estimated that a person with active tuberculosis can infect an average of 15 people every year. The disease is known to thrive in conditions of poverty and overcrowded areas.

Photo B: Africa

AP/Saurabh Das

An unidentified patient suffering from tuberculosis lies on her bed at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto township, population two- and-a-half million, of Johannesburg. Less than 30 km away, the World Summit on Sustainable Development is taking place, at which disease as an obstacle to development is one of the many subjects under discussion.

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