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08/27/2005:

"Tuberculosis Emergency Declared in Africa"

A regional committee of the World Health Organization declared tuberculosis an emergency in Africa. Controlling the epidemic, which kills 540,000 Africans a year, will require $2.2 billion in new spending in 2006 and 2007 and a number of measures to detect cases and oversee treatment, the panel said.

Other needs include increasing the number of trained health workers and making antiretroviral drugs available to people infected with both tuberculosis and the AIDS virus. Worldwide, there are nine million cases of active tuberculosis and two million deaths each year, making tuberculosis second to AIDS as a cause of illness and death among adults.
Full: nytimes.com

Africa is just one big giant 'emergency' to the WHO and NGO and pharmaceutical profiteers: since virtually nobody is tested for either AIDS or TB in Africa and the 'trained health workers' largely absent, where are all these numbers coming from? Add malaria to the mix too.