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)