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Improving TB/HIV collaboration: practical examples from the 2008 HIV Implementers' Meeting
This edition of HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice covers the practical aspects of TB/HIV collaboration, looking at lessons from a wide range of countries presented at the recent HIV Implementers' Meeting in Kampala, Uganda.
The first article looks at improving the diagnosis of HIV in TB patients, and reports on how programmes have tackled the service design problems that contribute to the low rate of HIV diagnosis in this group of patients.
The second article looks at how HIV care, including antiretroviral therapy, can be delivered to TB patients. Is it best done through TB programmes or HIV clinics, or does it depend on the setting - and the patient?
Three related news reports at www.aidsmap.com look at other collaborative issues:
- TB/HIV collaboration: an overview.
- Monitoring and evaluation: how partners and funders are trying to harmonise monitoring and evaluation of TB/HIV activities.
- How well are HIV programmes doing at incorporating the Three I's?
- What difference does community-level TB/HIV activism make? Examples of successful interventions from Swaziland, Uganda, Cote D'Ivoire and Nigeria.
Readers are also invited to fill out a Stop TB Partnership questionnaire on TB/HIV collaborative activities.
Theo Smart, Editor
About HATIP
A regular electronic newsletter for health care workers and community-based organisations on HIV treatment in resource-limited settings.
Its publication is supported by the UK government's Department for International Development (DfID), the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and the Stop TB Department of the World Health Organization.
Other supporters include Positive Action GlaxoSmithKline (founding sponsor); Abbott Fund; Abbott Molecular; Cavidi; Elton John AIDS Foundation; Merck & Co., Inc.; Pfizer Ltd; F Hoffmann La Roche; Schering Plough; and Tibotec, a division of Janssen Cilag.
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