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Strategies to improve patient retention on antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa

Harries AD, Zachariah R, Lawn SD, Rosen S
2010-06-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2010-06-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
The scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been one of the success stories of sub-Saharan Africa, where coverage has increased from about 2% in 2003 to more than 40% 5 years later....
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Research

Systematic or test-guided treatment for tuberculosis in HIV-infected adults

Blanc FX, Badje AD, Bonnet MMB, Gabillard D, Messou E,  et al.
2020-06-18 • New England Journal of Medicine
2020-06-18 • New England Journal of Medicine
BACKGROUND
In regions with high burdens of tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), many HIV-infected adults begin antiretroviral therapy (ART) when they are already seve...
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Research

Risk score for predicting mortality including urine lipoarabinomannan detection in hospital inpatients with HIV-associated tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa: Derivation and external validation cohort study

Gupta-Wright A, Corbett EL, Wilson D, van Oosterhout JJ, Dheda K,  et al.
2019-04-05 • PLOS Medicine
2019-04-05 • PLOS Medicine
The prevalence of and mortality from HIV-associated tuberculosis (HIV/TB) in hospital inpatients in Africa remains unacceptably high. Currently, there is a lack of tools to identify thos...
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Commentary

The HIV-associated tuberculosis epidemic--when will we act?

Harries AD, Zachariah R, Corbett EL, Lawn SD, Santos-Filho ET,  et al.
2010-05-29 • Lancet
2010-05-29 • Lancet
Despite policies, strategies, and guidelines, the epidemic of HIV-associated tuberculosis continues to rage, particularly in southern Africa. We focus our attention on the regions with t...
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Time to initiation of antiretroviral therapy among patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa

Lawn SD, Campbell L, Kaplan R, Boulle AM, Cornell M,  et al.
2011-06-01 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
2011-06-01 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
We studied the time interval between starting tuberculosis treatment and commencing antiretroviral treatment (ART) in HIV-infected patients (n = 1433; median CD4 count 71 cells per micro...
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Review

Eye exam with indirect ophthalmoscopy for diagnosis of disseminated tuberculosis in patients with HIV/AIDS

Abubakar I, Zignol M, Falzon D, Raviglione M, Ditui L,  et al.
2013-03-24 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2013-03-24 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
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Review

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis--Current dilemmas, unanswered questions, challenges, and priority needs

Zumla A, Abubakar I, Raviglione M, Hoelscher M, Ditui L,  et al.
2012-04-03 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2012-04-03 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
Tuberculosis was declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Following the declaration and the promotion in 1995 of directly observed treatment short cour...
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Tuberculosis diagnostics and biomarkers: needs, challenges, recent advances, and opportunities

McNerney R, Maeurer M, Abubakar I, Marais BJ, McHugh TD,  et al.
2012-04-10 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2012-04-10 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
Tuberculosis is unique among the major infectious diseases in that it lacks accurate rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests. Failure to control the spread of tuberculosis is largely due to...
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Review

HIV and tuberculosis--science and implementation to turn the tide and reduce deaths

Harries AD, Lawn SD, Getahun H, Zachariah R, Havlir D
2012-07-27 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
2012-07-27 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
Every year, HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB) deprives 350,000 mainly young people of productive and healthy lives.People die because TB is not diagnosed and treated in those with known H...
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Commentary

HIV testing in people with presumptive tuberculosis: time for implementation

KumarAMV, Gupta D, Gupta RS, Satyanarayana S, Wilson N,  et al.
2012-10-24 • Lancet Respiratory Medicine
2012-10-24 • Lancet Respiratory Medicine
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Research

Disseminated Tuberculosis Among Hospitalised HIV Patients in South Africa: A Common Condition that Can Be Rapidly Diagnosed Using Urine-Based Assays

Kerkhoff AD, Barr DA, Schutz C, Burton R, Nicol MP,  et al.
2017-09-07 • Scientific Reports
2017-09-07 • Scientific Reports
HIV-associated disseminated TB (tuberculosis) has been under-recognised and poorly characterised. Blood culture is the gold-standard diagnostic test, but is expensive, slow, and may unde...