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Tuberculosis and HIV
TB, HIV, mothers and children: time for action

This year’s World TB Day edition of HATIP focusses on the needs of pregnant women and children with TB.

Published
23 March 2012
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB services
Fighting TB/HIV coinfection: realising commitments through integrated programming

To coincide with World TB Day the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development has today released a policy briefing “Fighting TB/HIV Co-Infection: Realising Commitments Through Integrated Programming”. The briefing seeks to highlight the rationale for integration, and also explore the opportunities and challenges to promoting greater integration.

Published
21 March 2012
From
UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development
TB prevention
Thibela TB: Community-wide IPT did not improve TB control in South Africa’s mines at the population level

Giving a six- to nine-month course of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) at a ‘community-wide level’ – to everyone working at randomly selected South African gold mines –

Published
15 March 2012
By
Theo Smart
Tuberculosis and HIV
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.

Published
03 February 2012
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
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

Published
06 December 2011
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB diagnosis
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

Published
30 November 2011
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB prevention
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.

Published
25 November 2011
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB prevention
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.

Published
17 March 2011
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Tuberculosis and HIV
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.

Published
21 December 2010
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
TB services
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.

Published
03 November 2010
From
Business Day
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