Medscape

Same-Day ART Matches Delayed ART for HIV With TB Symptoms

Same-day ART initiation for patients with HIV infection and tuberculosis symptoms is as effective as deferring therapy until ...
Healio

People with HIV should participate in tuberculosis vaccine trials, new recommendations say

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Experts say that people with HIV should be included in clinical trials for new tuberculosis vaccine candidates ...
The Week

New TB drugs, old challenges: Experts warn of MDR-TB crisis in HIV patients

Despite newer TB drugs, delayed diagnosis, atypical symptoms and drug resistance continue to complicate treatment ...
Medicine Buffalo

UB team visits community health partners in Africa to develop drugs to fight HIV, TB

Faculty investigators from UB’s Center for Integrated Global Biomedical Sciences (CIGBS) recently traveled to Zimbabwe and South Africa to address two public health challenges devastating that part of ...
Medical Xpress

For people living with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis is still the leading cause of death

The latest World Health Organization's Global Tuberculosis Report released in November 2024 painted a sobering picture; approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in ...
GEN

HIV Tat Undermines Cellular Defenses, Enabling TB Infection

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 ...
EurekAlert!

TB and HIV treatments are not enough for a full recovery

Existing treatments control TB and HIV, but the immune system does not revert to normal, helping explain why people living with HIV remain susceptible to infections and underscoring the need for ...
Medscape

A Reader Responds to "Tuberculosis and HIV--Needed: A New Paradigm for the Control and Management of Linked Epidemics"

I am writing in reference to the recent article on linking the control and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV in developing countries. [1] Although the World Health Organization has provided ...
Science Daily

Tuberculosis disease intensifies HIV antibody response in people with HIV

New research found that people living with HIV that have had pulmonary tuberculosis had broader and more potent HIV antibody responses and differences in HIV sequences predicted to be antibody ...
The Conversation

‘Test and treat’ is being used to tackle HIV. Why not TB?

Harriet Mayanja-Kizza is based at the Uganda CWRU Research Collaboration (UCRC) - a Sub-Saharan African Network for TB/HIV Research Excellence (SANTHE) Partner Site. She receives funding from NIH, ...
Forbes

For The Fight Against HIV, TB And Malaria, A Moment Of Reckoning

Community health worker Marc Ilboudo uses a mobile application during a consultation with a child in Pousghin, Burkina Faso. The heads of state and government from nearly 200 countries gathering this ...