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  HIV and TB in Practice for nurses

  This is the first of a special monthly edition of HATiP for nurses and other health care workers involved in task-shifting in sub-Saharan Africa....

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  HIV and TB in Practice: Going beyond the clinic to eliminate TB and TB/HIV

  Thanks to the following for their advice: Dr Liz Corbett,  Professor Helen Ayles and Professor Peter Godfrey-Faussett of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical...

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  An intensive household counselling intervention reduces the burden of TB in ZAMSTAR study

  An intensive ‘household counselling’ intervention (involving TB contact tracing, multiple home visits, TB and HIV counselling and screening with linkages to care) reduced the prevalence of culture-positive...

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  ART and TB prevention

  This edition explores what is known about the potential benefits and limits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for TB prevention and control....

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  Spurring community engagement to ensure the proper implementation of the Three I’s for TB/HIV

  WHO and civil society organisations met to examine ways of promoting greater community engagement to ensure implementation of Three I’s for TB/HIV in southern Africa....

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  New joint guidelines on IPT and intensified case-finding from WHO

  New guidelines on prevention of TB in people with HIV through use of isoniazid preventive therapy and intensified case-finding....

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  Managing MDR-TB in the community: from presentation to cure or end-of-life care

  Part of a series, this edition examines the sequence of care of a person with drug-resistant TB. ...

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  Towards more compassionate and effective care for drug resistant TB: improving diagnosis and case detection

  The second in a series of articles on improving care for people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, this edition of HATIP focuses on detection and diagnosis....

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  Collaborative TB and HIV services for drug users

  Review of implementing collaborative TB/HIV activities for injecting drug users, with case studies from Brazil, Ukraine, Zanzibar and India. ...

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  HIV and TB in Practice in India: Integrating TB/HIV care and other essential health services into ‘targeted interventions’ for drug users

  Review of India's efforts to integrate HIV and TB care for injecting drug users, with case studies....

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TB services news from aidsmap

• Starting ART two weeks after TB treatment reduces death risk by one-third in people with HIV

  Starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) in people with TB and advanced HIV disease two weeks after starting TB therapy, rather than waiting eight weeks, significantly improves survival according to the results of the CAMbodian Early vs Late Introduction of Antiretroviral drugs ...

  23 July 2010 | Theo Smart

• HIV counselling increases condom use in TB patients

  TB patients who have knowledge regarding the relationship between TB and HIV or have been counselled on HIV are more likely to report having used a condom during sexual intercourse, according to a study presented at ...

  10 June 2010 | Lesley Odendal

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TB services news selected from other sources

• PERU: In Prison, a Little Health Care Goes a Long Way

  "I caught tuberculosis, but I'm lucky because it's been cured," says Hernán Arévalo from his bed in the new hospital at the Peruvian prison of Lurigancho, one of the most crowded and dangerous in Latin America. "Before, whoever came in here was unlikely to get out alive."

  20 January 2012 | Inter Press Service

• Cambodia - MSF Steps Up Tuberculosis Support

  Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up its tuberculosis (TB) support in the Cambodian province of Kampong Cham while continuing to help shape the nation’s national TB programme.

  03 January 2012 | MSF

• New one-roof policies on TB, HIV/AIDS ‘are challenging’

  Putting the South African government’s new policies for integrating tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS care into practice is proving extremely challenging, says Cape Town specialist.

  03 November 2010 | Business Day

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