Dual TB, HIV treatment key to Africa AIDS battle

captainclaw submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.nlm.nih.gov)

TB, which is spread through close personal contact, has long been a problem in Africa, where hundreds of millions are latent carriers of the disease. But the growing relationship between TB and HIV has made treatment of both diseases more difficult in vulnerable populations.In turn, HIV helps to spread TB in the general population. One of the paradoxes of the HIV epidemic is that the anti-retroviral drugs that have saved so many lives contribute to a jump in TB because those who are co-infected are not being treated simultaneously for both diseases.

Keywords: TB HIV&AIDS lethal TB strain human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV