Article
New opportunities in tuberculosis prevention: implications for people living with HIV
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GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ, Lucia et al. New opportunities in tuberculosis prevention: implications for people living with HIV. Journal of the International AIDS Society, v. 23, n. 1, p. e25438, 2020.
1758-2652
10.1002/jia2.25438
Autor
González Fernández, Lucia
Casas, Esther C
Singh, Satvinder
Churchyard, Gavin J
Brigden, Grania
Gotuzzo, Eduardo
Vandevelde, Wim
Sahu, Suvanand
Ahmedov, Sevim
Kamarulzaman, Adeeba
Ponce-de-León, Alfredo
Grinsztejn, Beatriz
Swindells, Susan
Resumen
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.