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Vanphanom Sychareun, Viengnakhone Vongxay, Souksamone Thongmyxay, Kongmany Chaleunvong, Jo Durham, et al.
…nges in combating the treatable and preventable diseases of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria among priority groups. One priority group are pregnant women. Given increased availability of diagnosis and treatment for these diseases, understanding community knowledge and acc…
Olivier Marcy, MD, PhD, Maryline Bonnet, MD, PhD, Eric Wobudeya, MD, PhD
TB-Speed HIV is a prospective multicentre management study evaluating the safety and feasibility of the recently proposed PAANTHER TB treatment decision algorithm for HIV-infected children with presumptive TB. It will be conducted in four countries with high and very high TB (Tub…
Waleed MD Gamal Elddin Khaleel, Ass. Prof.
People Living with HIV (PLHIV) are prone to several opportunistic infections depending on the degree of immunosuppression as well as infections prevalent in their geographic area/country. These include a wide variety of mycobacterial diseases, fungal infections, bacterial pneumon…
Fernandez D, Salami I, Davis J, Mbah F, Kazeem A, et al.
Objective HIV and tuberculosis represent diseases of major public health importance worldwide. Very little is known about HIV-TB coinfection among pregnant women, especially from industrialized settings. In this study, we examined the association between TB, HIV, and HIV-TB coinf…
Osei Bonsu E, Addo IY, Adjei BN, Alhassan MM, Nakua EK
…e, treatment outcomes and determinants of tuberculosis (TB)-HIV coinfection in Ghana. Study design A retrospective review of TB case register for Kwabre East Municipality was conducted for the period 2010-2020 to identify TB-HIV coinfections. Setting 462 patients with TB from fou…
Gengiah S, Naidoo K, Mlobeli R, Tshabalala MF, Nunn AJ, et al.
Introduction In South Africa, mortality rates among HIV-TB coinfected patients are among the highest in the world. The key to reducing mortality is integrating HIV-TB services, however, a generalizable implementation method and package of tested change ideas to guide the scale-up…
Mihir P. Rupani, Sheetal Vyas
…ctors of catastrophic costs due to TB among co-prevalent TB-HIV and TB-diabetes patients. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study among 234 patients co-affected with TB-HIV and 304 patients with TB-diabetes co-prevalence in the Bhavnagar region (western part of India). TB c…
Guita Amane, Paula Simbine, Pereira Zindoga, Algy Abdula, Miguelhete Lisboa
**BACKGROUND:** HIV testing among people with presumptive tuberculosis (PP-TB) represents a critical entry point for HIV diagnosis and care, especially in high-burden settings like Mozambique. However, systematic testing in this population remains suboptimal. This study assessed …
Leslie A. Enane, Adam Leonard, Lameck Diero, Olivier Marcy, Marcel Yotebieng
…d the most common opportunistic infection among people with HIV, imposes a profound burden on adolescents and young adults (AYA, ages 10–24 years) [1]. Although preventable and curable, TB remains a leading cause of death for AYA in endemic settings, the predominant cause of morb…
Dlatu N, Longo-Mbenza B, Apalata T
… leading infectious cause of death among people living with HIV. Reducing morbidity and mortality from HIV-associated TB requires strong collaboration between TB and HIV services at all levels with fully integrated, people-centered models of care. Methods This is a qualitative st…
Banubi, G. Vijaya Lakshmi
… the world, mainly in developing nations, co-infection with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) is a significant public health concern. Commonly HIV-TB co-infection is related to a lack of knowledge on TB among people surviving with HIV. Hence, the particular research study is done to know…
I. L. Okoroiwu, Emmanuel Ifeanyi Obeagu, Queen Braxton N. Anaebo, Olivia Walter
Background: Human immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Tuberculosis (TB) are the leading infectious diseases with high morbidity and mortality in the developing countries; it has been known to be associated with some coagulation abnormalities especially as the disease progresses.�…
Surendra K Sharma, MD, Ph.D
…ifampicin in antiretroviral naive patients co-infected with HIV and TB and to investigate whether Rifampicin co-administration in clinical practice leads to a clinically relevant decrease of Nevirapine plasma concentrations in Indian patients co-infected with HIV and Tuberculosis…
Weyenga H, Onyango E, Katana AK, Pathmanathan I, Sidibe K, et al.
BACKGROUND: HIV infection is associated with high mortality among people with TB. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces TB incidence and mortality among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Since 2005, Kenya has scaled up TB and HIV prevention, diagnosis and treatment. We evaluated the…
Wouters E, Sommerland N, Masquillier C, Rau A, Engelbrecht M, et al.
Background HIV and tuberculosis (TB) are intricably interlinked in South Africa. The social aspects of this co-epidemic remain relatively unexplored. More specifically, no research has quantitatively explored the double stigma associated with HIV and TB in this context, and more …
Sinha S, Gupta K, Mandal D, Das BK, Pandey RM
…amin D deficiency in TB and human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) subjects, we intend exploring the possibility of a localized deficiency of vitamin D metabolites in BALF of these patients. Objective The primary objective was to assess the level of 25D3 in serum and BALF of subj…
Torres M, Tubay J, de losReyes A 5th
Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are the two major public health emergencies in the Philippines. The country is ranked fourth worldwide in TB incidence cases despite national efforts and initiatives to mitigate the disease. Concurrently, the Philippines ha…
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
…n one primary health care centre in Blantyre, Malawi, where HIV and TB are major contributors to early mortality. Participants will be adults with symptoms of tuberculosis (cough of any duration) attending the primary clinic with an acute care episode. We will exclude adults who…
Liao R, Hu L, Yu J, Chen Y, Chen M, et al.
Background HIV-tuberculosis (HIV-TB) co-infection is a significant public health concern worldwide. TB delay, consisting of patient delay, diagnostic delay, treatment delay, increases the risk of adverse anti-TB treatment (ATT) outcomes. Except for individual level variables, dif…
Nickolas T Agathis, Kimi Sato, Stephanie O'Connor, Rebeca I Briceño Robaugh, Cleophas D'Auvergne, et al.
…tuberculosis (TB) disease and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and ensuring they receive antiretroviral treatment (ART) can reduce TB/HIV-associated mortality. We reviewed linkage of children and young adolescents with TB to HIV services at clinical sites in 16 high TB/HIV-burd…
Vidya Mave, Samyra R. Cox, Akshay Gupte, Jonathan E. Golub
…tuberculosis (TB) and 662,000 (6%) of them were living with HIV. Over the same period, an estimated 1.1 million people died with TB, and HIV co-infection contributed to an additional 161,000 TB-related deaths [1]. Since 2010, global TB incidence and related mortality have been gr…
Ndakidemi E, Emerson C, Medley A, Ngowi B, Ng'eno B, et al.
…GROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in children are of concern due to the high morbidity and mortality they engender. Tanzania is working to improve TB and HIV case identification and treatment, as well as linkage of TB and HIV care in pedia…
Naidoo K, Gengiah S, Yende-Zuma N, Mlobeli R, Ngozo J, et al.
Background HIV-TB treatment integration reduces mortality. Operational implementation of integrated services is challenging. This study assessed the impact of quality improvement (QI) for HIV-TB integration on mortality within primary healthcare (PHC) clinics in South Africa. Met…
Guo Q, Zhong Y, Wang Z, Cao T, Zhang M, et al.
…mmune dysregulation in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and tuberculosis (TB) co-infection; however, the characteristics and role of these subclusters are unknown. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of patients with HIV-1 infection alone (HIV-pre) and those wit…
Otiende V, Achia T, Mwambi H
…kground Tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) diseases are globally acknowledged as a public health challenge that exhibits adverse bidirectional relations due to the co-epidemic overlap. To understand the co-infection burden we used the case notification data …