Sepsis is a leading global cause of hospital deaths, occurring when the body's response to infection damages tissue and ...

One in four TB deaths worldwide is HIV related, the international health agency said in its 2009 Global TB Control Report released Tuesday. That's twice as many as had been recogn ...

Untreated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection markedly increases the risk of tuberculosis, which remains the most common cause of hospitalization and death globally among people with HIV ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV. Although HIV-1 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) coinfection remains a major public health concern, this problem ...

The immune system remains seriously out-of-whack—in an inflammatory state of overactivation and impaired ...

Existing treatments control TB and HIV, but the immune system does not revert to normal, helping explain why people living with HIV remain susceptible to infections and underscoring the need for ...

The Xpert MTB/Ultra molecular diagnostic test for stool samples, until now recommended only for children, could be established as an additional test for diagnosing tuberculosis in adults living with ...

Tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and cancer are three of the most significant health challenges affecting Uganda today. Each disease presents a heavy burden on its own, but their interaction makes prevention, ...

Introduction Towards the ‘End TB Strategy’ targets, the WHO recommends the provision of tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy (TPT) for high-risk groups including people living with HIV (PLWH). 3 years ...

New research found that people living with HIV that have had pulmonary tuberculosis had broader and more potent HIV antibody responses and differences in HIV sequences predicted to be antibody ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Treating tuberculosis and the AIDS virus simultaneously saves more than twice as many lives compared with attacking TB first, researchers reported on Wednesday. Dual treatment pays ...