Items tagged with HIV coinfection
Tulane University awarded $6.1 million for postnatal HIV, TB study (post)
Tuberculosis, the world’s leading infectious disease killer, is also the leading cause of death in infants with HIV. Researchers at Tulane National Primate Research Center will use a new $6.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to better understand how the developing immune system responds to the two diseases so that doctors can improve outcomes for infants and children across the globe.
International $6 million grant to study HIV/TB coinfection in kids (post)
PITTSBURGH, 1/5/2019 – About a third of us are walking around with the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB) in our bodies, but most don’t actually end up with TB. For children living with HIV – about 2 million at last estimate – it’s a different story. They’re much more likely to develop TB, and about 40,000 HIV-positive children die from it each year.
WHO reveals Mozambique still listed as having a high TB rate (post)
Mozambique is still on the list of countries classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having a high burden of tuberculosis, TB/HIV co-infection and drug-resistant tuberculosis.
TB LAM test improves TB diagnosis in people with low CD4 counts (post)
Use of the TB LAM test in people with HIV with CD4 counts below 200 boosted the number of people diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) by a third, an observational study in Malawi and Mozambique has found. Almost half of TB cases would have been missed if LAM had not been included in the diagnostic algorithm, showing that the test is useful in a far wider population than currently recommended.
Malawi: ART alone isn't enough to stop the TB epidemic among people with HIV (post)
Expanded access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been accompanied by big falls in incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Malawi, according to research published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society. However, rates of TB among people on ART still remained higher than those observed in the general population, underlining the importance of rapid TB diagnosis.
US: Active case-finding shows HIV/TB coinfection prevalent in country of Georgia (post)
An active case-finding strategy uncovered a “very high prevalence” of tuberculosis coinfection among newly diagnosed HIV-infected patients in the country of Georgia, according to a recent study.
TB-related deaths among people living with HIV falling, but not by enough (post)
Even though tuberculosis (TB) is preventable and curable, it is the top infectious killer worldwide, claiming around 4400 lives a day. TB also remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV, causing one in three AIDS-related deaths. However, progress has been made―TB-related deaths among people living with HIV peaked in 2005, at 600 000 deaths; since then, they have halved, to 300 000 in 2017.
New rapid test significantly more effective for TB diagnosis in people with HIV (post)
Compared to the only other approved device for TB detection in people living with HIV, the new FujiLAM point-of-care test offers superior diagnostic sensitivity.
Management of TB in HIV patients: British HIV Association guideline (post)
The British HIV Association has released an updated guideline for the management of TB in patients with HIV.
NIH funds creation of new lab model for TB/HIV research (post)
San Antonio, Texas (June 26, 2019) – When people suffer from both HIV and TB, it creates “one of the biggest health problems in the world,” according to Texas Biomed Assistant Professor Smita Kulkarni, Ph.D. Now, the National Institutes of Health is funding a two-year study by Texas Biomed scientists developing a lab model that mimics the early stages of the co-infection of these two diseases.
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