HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice No.202
15. Euro Surveill. 2017;22(47):pii=17-00103
These policy guidelines provide a strategic approach and new recommendations for integrated TB and HIV services for patients suffering from substance-abuse addiction. The key recommendations fall under three main categories: joint planning, key interventions, and overcoming barriers.
International Journal of Infectious Diseases 46 (2016) 56–60
The goal of this addendum is to help management and staff
minimize the risk of TB transmission at facilities in resource limited settings in which a.) HIV-infected persons receive diagnosis, care, treatment,
and/or support, and b.) there is a high prevalence of HIV infection, both known
and... undiagnosed, in settings such as prisons, jails, other
detention centers, and drug rehabilitation centers.
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Reach the Unreached - FIND, TREAT, CURE TB, SAVE LIVES
Lessons from the STEP-TB Project.
Accessed November 2017.
Lancet Respir Med 2017; 5: 291–360Vol, 5 April 2017
National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Conrol Programme
Pathak et al. (2016), PeerJ, DOI 10.7717/peerj.1738; 1-14
Patients with retreatment tuberculosis (TB) represent those
who have been treated previously for onemonth ormorewith
anti-TB drugs and who have been diagnosed once again with
the disease.These patientsmainly include relapses, treatment
after failure, or loss to follow-up on a first-line treatmen...t
regimen [1]. The number of these patients is not negligible.
In 2014, of the 6.3 million TB cases that were notified
by National TB Programmes (NTPs) to the World Health
Organization (WHO), approximately 700,000 patients were
already previously treated
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