One in four TB deaths worldwide is HIV related, the international health agency said in its 2009 Global TB Control Report released Tuesday. That's twice as many as had been recogn ...

New guidelines update ART choices, endorse long-acting injectables, refine infant feeding advice, and prioritise shorter TB ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV. Although HIV-1 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) coinfection remains a major public health concern, this problem ...

Lesotho looks like a peaceful mountain kingdom, but the numbers tell a horrifying story. It has one of the lowest life expectancies in the world, driven by crushing HIV rates, tuberculosis, and ...

TB remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV. Uganda is a high TB-burden country, and HIV accelerates ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a major unrecognized cause of deadly sepsis among people with HIV in Africa, a sweeping new study reveals. Beginning treatment for TB immediately – even before sepsis patients are ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...

Nov. 29, 2023 –The COVID-19 pandemic hampered progress in fighting tuberculosis infections worldwide. Diverted funds meant that one of the world’s leading infectious killers caused 1.3 million deaths ...

Introduction Towards the ‘End TB Strategy’ targets, the WHO recommends the provision of tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy (TPT) for high-risk groups including people living with HIV (PLWH). 3 years ...

Simple markers of anemia and systemic inflammation may be important tools for identifying patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection who are at higher risk for active tuberculosis (TB) ...