Items tagged with HIV coinfection
World AIDS Day message from the Director of the WHO Global TB Program (post)
Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director of the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Global TB Program, delivered a message on the occasion of World AIDS Day, 1 December.
60 percent of TB cases are co-infected with HIV in Botswana (post)
GABORONE, Dec. 1 -- More than 60 percent of Tuberculosis (TB) cases in Botswana are co-infected with HIV, the virus that causes the endemic AIDS, according to Botswana's assistant health and wellness minister.
Uganda: Government rolls out new TB urine test in hospitals (post)
Kampala. Government has rolled out a new tuberculosis (TB) test technology that uses urine samples to provide results in 20-25 minutes as opposed to the traditional use of sputum to diagnose the same disease.
The world needs a urine test for TB. But it’s already here. (post)
The W.H.O. has recommended such a test for H.I.V.-positive patients since 2015. But in poor countries, few qualifying patients are receiving it.
Urine testing of people with HIV for TB can save lives and be cost-effective (post)
Screening all hospitalized patients with HIV for tuberculosis (TB) using urine tests would improve life expectancy and be cost-effective in Malawi and South Africa. These findings from an international team of investigators have been published in The Lancet Global Health and could influence international guidelines on TB testing.
Glimmers of hope: moving towards better HIV and TB treatment in eastern Europe (post)
Eastern Europe continues to have one of the worst HIV epidemics in the world outside sub-Saharan Africa, with the worst linkage to care of any region in the world, last week's meeting on Standard of Care for HIV and Coinfections in Europe heard.
New discovery could lead to ways to protect HIV patients from deadly TB (post)
Director of the Southwest National Primate Research Center Professor Deepak Kaushal, Ph.D. says research he collaborated on is pinpointing a possible new avenue of protection for HIV/AIDS patients. The study, published this month in the journal Cell Reports helps scientists better understand how HIV promotes deadly cases of tuberculosis (TB).
PLOS ONE study on breakthrough TB helps inform global TB, HIV response (post)
FHI 360’s “R&E Search for Evidence”: New analysis of breakthrough TB in Ethiopia can inform global TB response
CROI 2019: TB diagnosis in people with HIV increases risk of death within 10 years (post)
Among people with HIV in Latin America, those diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) at an initial clinic visit were about twice as likely to die within 10 years as people not initially diagnosed with TB, according to findings from a large observational study. This increased risk persisted despite the availability of TB treatment and mirrored patterns seen previously in HIV-negative populations, according to research supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. Investigators from the NIAID-supported Caribbean, Central and South America Network for HIV Epidemiology (CCASAnet) presented the findings today at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle.
CROI 2019: New study is a breakthrough for preventing TB in people living with HIV (post)
Geneva – A Unitaid-funded study has found that 3HP, a new, shorter preventive therapy for tuberculosis, is safe for people who also take the HIV drug dolutegravir. The results mark a critical milestone for countries and funding partners seeking to expand preventive TB therapy.
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