New opportunities in tuberculosis prevention: implications for people living with HIV.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of mortality among people living with HIV (PLHIV). An invigorated global END TB Strategy seeks to increase efforts in scaling up TB preventive therapy (TPT) as a central intervention for HIV programmes in an effort to contribute to a 90% reduction in TB incidence and 95% reduction in mortality by 2035. TPT in PLHIV should be part of a comprehensive approach to reduce TB transmission, illness and death that also includes TB active case-finding and prompt, effective and timely initiation of anti-TB therapy among PLHIV. However, the use and implementation of preventive strategies has remained deplorably inadequate and today TB prevention among PLHIV has become an urgent priority globally.

Discussion

We present a summary of the c

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez Fernandez L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6947976 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature