Tuberculosis & HIV
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.
TB news
Including news from the 38th Union World Conference on Lung Health, 2007
- Significant increase in isoniazid-resistant TB in UK
- Daily micronutrients of some benefit for HIV-positive patients receiving TB treatment
- WHO figures suggest progress against TB may be slowing
- 5% of all TB cases multi-drug resistant; XDR-TB reported by 45 countries
- Two XDR TB cases reported in Botswana
- Anti-HIV treatment reduces TB incidence in Spain
- Cough alone a poor predictor of TB: look for fever and weight loss too
- Failure to suppress viral load more likely with nevirapine than efavirenz if ART started during TB treatment
- TB rates in UK highest since 1987, but low, stable prevalence of MDR TB
- Experts debate how to develop drugs specifically for MDR TB
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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