An HIV positive TB patient, holds a packet of tablets received as part of his treatment at Rutsanana Polyclinic in Glen Norah township, Harare June 24, 2019. - (Photo by Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP) ...
Although increasing numbers of patients have both conditions, current national TB and HIV programs remain largely separate with varying levels of interaction and communication. This programmatic ...
Concurrent treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV infection is challenging, given drug--drug interactions, overlapping toxicities, and worsening clinical symptoms due to immune reconstitution ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An analysis of 17 years of national surveillance data showed that all forms of rifampin resistance in patients ...
A highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis has killed about 85% of South African HIV patients who have become infected, presenting one of the most worrisome problems in HIV and tuberculosis control, ...
The third paper documents SA's struggle with HIV/AIDS, with the chilling statistic that despite having just 0.7% of the world's population, the country has 17% of the global HIV burden. The paper is ...
In sub-Saharan Africa, tuberculosis is the disease that most often brings people with HIV into the clinic for treatment. Infection with both diseases is so common that in South Africa, for instance, ...
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, ...
Peter Sands, the director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, discusses the stakes of the donor ...
Since the 1980s, HIV has contributed to an increase in tuberculosis (TB) cases across the globe. Recently, diabetes has been found to be an important risk factor for TB. In a new study, Yale ...
A global health initiative that works to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria raised $11.34 billion at an event in ...
Faculty investigators from UB’s Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences (CIGBS) recently traveled to Zimbabwe and South Africa to address two public health challenges devastating that part of ...