OF NOTE THIS WEEK

In a new report to mark World Tuberculosis Day 2009, the World Health Organization said about 1.4 million TB patients -- nearly twice what experts had previously thought -- were found to be HIV positive in 2007, the AP reports. Researchers said the new data means HIV-positive people are about 20 times more likely than HIV-negative people to develop TB in countries where HIV is at epidemic levels.

Global Fund Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine said funding for programs to fight TB will fall $1.6 billion short in 2009, a gap he estimates will reach at least $4 billion in 2010.

NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DONORS

• The Global Fund welcomes Japan's 2009 contribution of $194 million
• U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton releases a statement on World Tuberculosis Day 2009
• Global Fund Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine co-authors a Lancet article dispelling AIDS myths

OTHER NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

• Quarter of Deaths in People with HIV Caused by TB, WHO Reports (Aidsmap)
• Lancet Opinion Piece Examines Progress Made Against HIV/AIDS (Kaiser Network)
• Advocates, Vatican Respond to Pope's Statement on Condom Distribution (Kaiser Network)
• HIV Dollars: Boon or Black Hole? (Council on Foreign Relations)
• Education Slows Sub-Sahara Africa AIDS (UPI/Red Orbit)
• Uganda: Army to Conduct HIV/AIDS Training (New Vision)
• Mozambique: HIV-Positive Mothers Breastfeed (All Africa)