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Uganda launches scale-up plan for TB preventive treatment (post)
Kampala, 4th July 2019: The Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, launched a 100-Day Accelerated Scale-up plan for Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment (TPT) targeting over 300 000 People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV) in Uganda. The government will also provide TPT to all children aged 12 months or more living with HIV as well as HIV-negative infants and children aged 5 years or below who are household contacts of patients with pulmonary Tuberculosis. As part of the scale-up plan, Government will provide TPT at 1 947 Antiretroviral therapy (ART) sites across the country.
Major TB reduction impossible without expansion of ART coverage (post)
Tuberculosis incidence in sub-Saharan Africa is falling too slowly to meet global targets of an 80% reduction by 2030, and where incidence is falling, the decline is strongly associated with the extent of antiretroviral coverage in people living with HIV, a study by former World Health Organization modelling experts has found.
Rifampin-resistant TB associated with HIV, increased mortality (post)
An analysis of 17 years of national surveillance data showed that all forms of rifampin resistance in patients with tuberculosis were positively associated with HIV infection, delayed culture conversion and increased mortality, researchers reported.
Management of active TB in adults with HIV (post)
A review of TB management in people living with HIV, published in The Lancet HIV, provides a summary of the current state of the science.
Preventing TB infection the focus of the TB-HIV Symposium in Mexico (post)
The TB-HIV Symposium, held in Mexico in advance of the 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science, launched a call to action to reach out to six million people living with HIV with preventive treatment for tuberculosis (TB).
Pediatric immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome common in HIV, TB endemic areas (post)
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) occurs commonly in infants and young children with HIV who are initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) in countries with a high prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis (TB), according to study results published in PLoS One.
Groundbreaking study on KZN community gives new hope to fight TB (post)
Durban - Tuberculosis (TB) despite it being treatable disease is the world's biggest infectious killer, claiming the lives of an estimated 1.6 million people around the world every year including 78 000 South Africans.
TB clusters show where HIV treatment is missing in South Africa (post)
Clusters of new cases of tuberculosis (TB) provide strong evidence of areas that need to be prioritised for improved antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage, and improved ART coverage is associated with a reduction in new TB cases, according to research carried out in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, published in July in Nature Scientific Reports.
Materials for IAS TB/HIV 2019 Symposium now available online (post)
The materials for IAS TB/HIV 2019 Symposium are now available online at the meeting website. These include the presentation slides, videos and some photos. Also the Call to action for a coordinated HIV and TB response to reach 6 million people living with HIV with tuberculosis preventive treatment can be found there.
Texas Biomed researchers pinpoint why HIV patients are more likely to develop TB (post)
Tuberculosis and HIV – two of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases – are far worse when they occur together. Now, Texas Biomedical Research Institute researchers have pinpointed an important mechanism at work in this troubling health problem. And, their discovery could lead to a new mode of treatment for people at risk. The results were published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a top-tier venue for critical advances in biomedical research.
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