Items tagged with HIV coinfection
Innovative and people-empowered approaches to end TB deaths (post)
There is clear urgency for bringing quality and effective tuberculosis (TB) prevention, treatment and care closer to communities. These efforts should entail empowering communities to use innovative community-based TB services, which have been shown to have a high impact and to be cost-effective.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients with HIV carries mortality risk (post)
A new study by investigators at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health, as well as colleagues in Africa, reveals that Mycobacterium tuberculosis carries a significant risk of mortality for patients with HIV and is often underdiagnosed. The study appeared in The Lancet.
Rifapentine and isoniazid for TB prevention in patients with HIV (post)
Although tuberculosis is relatively uncommon in the United States, it remains a potent killer in less developed regions. In South Africa, TB is the number one cause of death and there is a disproportionate share of HIV-associated tuberculosis. People with HIV are more likely to progress from latent tuberculosis to active tuberculosis disease, making prevention of tuberculosis transmission a priority.
TB in women in Ethiopia associated with HIV infection and aging (post)
Tuberculosis among pregnant women in Ethiopia independently correlated with HIV infection and increasing age, which suggests that young women in the country are continuously exposed to, and infected with, contagious TB, according to findings in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Latent TB infection associated with very high alcohol use among people with HIV (post)
Compared with medium-level alcohol use, very high use correlated with latent tuberculosis infection among adults with HIV in Uganda, according to a cross-sectional study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Systematic, test-guided TB treatment result in similar outcomes (post)
Systematic treatment for tuberculosis was not superior to test-guided treatment in reducing mortality or invasive bacterial disease among immunosuppressed adults with HIV, according to findings in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Advancing TB services for people living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic (post)
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread globally at a speed and magnitude unprecedented in modern times, claiming more than half a million lives and damaging societies and economies. In low- and middle-income countries especially, the COVID-19 pandemic and response is interacting with the global pandemics of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, creating additional barriers to accessing essential prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care services.
TB affected community & civil society priorities for new Global AIDS Strategy (post)
A new global AIDS Strategy is currently being developed by UNAIDS.
ART reduces risk that children with HIV will die from TB (post)
Just like in adult patients, ART reduces the risk that children with HIV will get or die from tuberculosis, according to data from six African countries.
World AIDS Day: Global solidarity, resilient services (post)
On the occasion of World AIDS Day, 1 December, the World Health Organization Global TB Program delivered a special message highlighting the need to expand and strengthen integration of services within the primary healthcare platform, optimizing differentiated service delivery, community engagement and the use of digital technologies to reach those most at risk of TB and HIV with screening, prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
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