Antiretroviral Therapy for Control of the HIV-associated Tuberculosis Epidemic in Resource-Limited Settings

Great progress has been made over the past few years in HIV testing in patients who have tuberculosis (TB) and in the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy. More than 3 million people in resource-limited settings were estimated to have started antiretroviral therapy by the end of 2007 and 2 million of...

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Autores principales: Lawn, Stephen D., Kranzer, Katharina, Wood, Robin
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Health Sciences Division 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2887494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19925961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccm.2009.08.010
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Sumario:Great progress has been made over the past few years in HIV testing in patients who have tuberculosis (TB) and in the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy. More than 3 million people in resource-limited settings were estimated to have started antiretroviral therapy by the end of 2007 and 2 million of these were in sub-Saharan Africa. However, little is known about what impact this massive public health intervention will have on the HIV-associated TB epidemic or how antiretroviral therapy might be used to best effect TB control. This article provides an in-depth review of these issues.

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