See also: Tuberculosis (General Information) for information about TB only (not with HIV infection)

General Information

• Tuberculosis (TB) (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version
• Tuberculosis and HIV disease (Project Inform)
• Tuberculosis (Poz)
• TB and HIV Coinfection (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC)
• Take Steps to Control TB  When You Have HIV (CDC)
• Tuberculosis (AIDSmap)

Guidelines

• TB Guidelines (CDC)
• Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents (CDC, National Institutes of Health, and HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America)
• Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections Among HIV-Exposed and HIV-Infected Children (AIDSInfo)

Selected Recent Articles

• New WHO algorithm to prevent TB deaths in very ill people with HIV.  (August 2016, AIDSmap)
• Underfunded tuberculosis programs often solely responsible for TB-HIV activities, report finds.  (August 2016, Science Speaks Blog).
• HIV coinfection does not accelerate emergence of MDR-TB.  (August 2016, Healio)
• A detectable CMV viral load could signal a high risk of mortality in older individuals hospitalised with HIV-associated TB.  (August 2016, AIDSmap)
• High-dose rifampicin for TB treatment regimen may improve survival in people with low CD4 cell counts.  (July 2016, AIDSmap)
• Regimens for latent TB in patients with HIV have advantages, disadvantages.  (July 2016, Healio)
• Trial shows higher dose rifampicin could reduce deaths among TB/HIV patients who are severely immunosuppressed.  (July 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• Regimens for latent TB in patients with HIV have advantages, disadvantages.  (July 2016, Healio)
• Early initiation of ART has ‘important consequences’ for TB management.  (May 2016, Healio)
• WHO recommendations aim to speed diagnosis, treatment of MDR-TB.  (May 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• GHIT Fund to invest millions in malaria, TB, neglected tropical disease interventions.  (April 2016, Healio)
• Isoniazid alone prevents tuberculosis in people with advanced HIV, urine test may lower mortality.  (March 2016, AIDSmap); related coverage from Healio
• Multidrug TB Prophylaxis Not Needed in Advanced HIV. (March 2016, MedPage Today)
• Going after TB first in coinfected HIV patients fails to cut mortality.  (February 2016, MedPage Today)
• HIV and TB link the Bronx and Tugela Ferry in a story of human rights and social justice.  (February 2016, Science Speaks Blog)
• HIV patients with TB face elevated risk for death in Eastern Europe.  (February 2016, Healio)
• Low implementation of Xpert MTB/RIF among HIV/TB co-infected adults in 19 low- and middle-income countries.  (December 2015, AIDSmap)
• Starting ART reduces TB risk for HIV-positive patients in South Africa.  (August 2015, AIDSmap)
• No Benefit to Treating Unconfirmed TB in Advanced HIV Cases.  (July 2015, Poz)
• Presumptive treatment of TB in advanced HIV no better than giving ART and isoniazid.  (July 2015, AIDSmap)
• Tuberculosis and poor implementation of proven interventions threaten people with HIV and TB.  (July 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• Children, people with HIV, pregnant women and others underserved by TB drug development present ethical imperative, opportunities for global disease approaches, authors say.  (June 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• Patients with HIV play key role in TB transmission.  (March 2015, Healio)
• Early ART, TB Prevention Improve HIV Outcomes.  (February 2015, MedPage Today)
• Trial results boost evidence early ART plus IPT preserves health.  (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• Trial to evaluate the use of health navigators to link HIV/TB patients to care and treatment fails to show positive results.  (February 2015, Science Speaks Blog)
• ART during tuberculosis therapy reduces mortality risk for people with HIV.  (December 2014, AIDSmap)
• Newly Identified Marker Helps Predict Tuberculosis Complications in HIV Patients.  (October 2014, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Study in South African township shows HIV-negative individuals often source of new TB cases in patients with HIV.  (August 2014, AIDSmap)
• TB HIV goals closer to rhetoric than reality, report released here shows.  (July 2014, Science Speaks Blog)
• HIV and tuberculosis are one disease in Southern Africa.  (July 2014, Science Speaks Blog)
• HIV and tuberculosis co-infection – no one left behind.  (July 2014, Science Speaks Blog)
• Reduced treatment delays for people with drug-resistant TB and HIV co-infection through decentralised care and rapid Xpert MTB/RIF test.  (July 2014, AIDSmap)
• PaMZ TB drug regimen: Cheaper, simpler, safer, and with effectiveness “significantly greater” than standard regimen, researchers say.  (July 2014, Science Speaks Blog)
• HIV associated with increased risk of MDR-TB.  (February 2014, AIDSmap)
• Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis neither reduces TB risk nor complicates TB diagnosis in people with HIV.  (January 2014, AIDSmap)
• Immune suppression associated with reduced risk of TB transmission to household contacts of people with HIV/TB co-infection.  (January 2014, AIDSmap)
• TB/HIV programmatic challenges highlighted at ICASA.  (January 2014, AIDSmap)
• Decentralisation of care reduces HIV and TB-related deaths, illness in Swaziland and Uganda.  (December 2013, AIDSmap)
• Early ART only increases TB IRIS risk for people with HIV who have a CD4 cell count below 50.  (November 2013, AIDSmap)
• Simultaneous HIV and tuberculosis therapy doesn’t cause problems with liver function.  (October 2013, AIDSmap)
• Eastern Europe facing quadruple epidemic while governments do nothing, warns UN Special Envoy.  (October 2013, AIDSmap)
• Preventive Therapy Lowers TB Deaths in People With HIV.  (August 2013, Poz)