Tuberculosis & HIV
Think TB in people with HIV
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38th Union World Conference on Lung Health - Cape Town, South Africa
Confronting the challenges of HIV and MDR in TB prevention and care
Download NAM's special conference TB booklet, It's time to integrate TB/HIV on a national scale.
Recent TB news
- d4T toxicity risk 7-fold higher when started with TB treatment
- TB Alliance, Tibotec, form partnership to take forward new drug
- New drug for MDR-TB does well in trial
- TB in South African mineworkers demands cross-border response, say advocates
- Smear-negative TB: C-reactive protein may provide useful screening method
- Integrated screening tool improves TB screening rate in HIV patients in Eastern Cape
- Infection control programme has reduced TB incidence in Tugela Ferry hospital at centre of XDR-TB outbreak
- Children in rural South Africa may be at increased risk of acquiring MDR-TB in hospitals
- Fewer than half of all TB patients in London being offered an HIV test
- TB treatment completion rates for HIV-positive UK patients: good but not quite on target [amended]
NAM's Patient information
NAM's HIV & TB Booklet
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NAM's Tuberculosis Factsheet
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External TB links
World Health Organization Stop TB Department
International Union Against TB and Lung Disease
Treatment Action Group TB/HIV Project
An extensive range of policy recommendations, presentations and reports on TB/HIV advocacy and community mobilisation
Key TB resources
Tuberculosis – overview of epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment
TB transmission in health care settings
Scaling up laboratory capacity for the coming storm of XDR TB
Expanding beyond DOTS to stop TB: community involvement in adherence support
Improving the diagnosis of active TB in HIV-positive people
TB treatment and diagnostics pipeline: once empty, suddenly offers new hope for TB care
Isoniazid preventative therapy
HIV's impact on TB control: is it time to re-think TB control strategies?
An integrated approach to HIV and TB care in adults in resource-limited settings
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) in the developing world
Special report - The future of TB diagnostics
Transformation of TB diagnostics on horizon: special report
Sniffing out tuberculosis - TB breath tests under investigation
Blood and urine tests for TB: still great hope for antigen detection
Interferon Gamma Release Assays (IGRAs)
A complicated and expensive way to answer a simple question?
Training resources
Special report – Improving the diagnosis of TB in HIV-positive people
TB diagnosis special report: why smear microscopy needs to be improved
Background on smear microscopy in TB diagnosis
TB diagnosis: Reducing the number of smears and clinic visits needed
TB diagnosis: Improving the yield with fluorescence microscopy
TB diagnosis: For now, still desperately seeking better diagnostics
Drugs used in the treatment of TB
First line
Second line TB Drugs
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