Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection occurs throughout the world, and remains a significant challenge to TB control. Both HIV and TB cause immune dysregulation that can result in atypical clinical and radiological presentation, and accelerated disease progression. Outcomes with advanced HIV and TB, therefore, can be poor. Whilst antiretroviral drug therapy is crucial, drug-drug interactions and immune reconstitution disease make treatment difficult. The joint effort of healthcare programmes, non-governmental organisations and civil society are needed to ensure the necessary access to testing, prevention and treatment that can reduce the burden of TB/HIV co-infection.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Essential Tuberculosis |
Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
Pages | 213-220 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030667030 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030667054 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2021 |
Keywords
- Co-infection
- Diagnostic tests
- Drug–drug interactions
- Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis
- GeneXpert
- HIV-associated tuberculosis
- IRIS
- Immunosuppression
- LAM test
- Latent TB infection
- Mycobacteraemia
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine
- General Immunology and Microbiology