The cursed duet today: Tuberculosis and HIV-coinfection

The cursed duet today: Tuberculosis and HIV-coinfection.

The tuberculosis (TB) and HIV syndemic continues to rage and are a major public health concern worldwide. This deadly association raises complexity and represent a significant barrier towards TB elimination. TB continues to be the leading cause of death amongst HIV-infected people. This paper reports the challenges that lay ahead and outlines some of the current and future strategies that may b...

Miliary tuberculosis and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome – ‘a cursed duet’

Tuberculous osteomyelitis is rare and usually involves the vertebrae but is seldom found in the foot. The uncommon site and ability to mimic other disorders clinically and radiographically leads to diagnostic and therapeutic delays. We report a case of a 40-year-old man who initially presented to his podiatrist with intermittent pain and swelling of his right ankle and foot that lasted for a ye...

HIV and tuberculosis--a "cursed duo" in the HAART era.

Double Scourge: Tuberculosis and HIV Coinfection

uberculosis (tb) has, from ancient times, ranked among the most feared and dreaded of the many diseases that afflict mankind. Over a century since Mycobacterium tuberculosis was discovered and more than 50 years after effective drug treatment was introduced, tb remains a major public health problem. It is now five years since the World Health Organization (who) took the unprecedented step of de...

High Tuberculosis and HIV Coinfection Rate, Johannesburg

To the Editor: Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of illness and death among HIV-1–infected patients in sub-Saharan Africa (1–3), but valid data on the population-level interaction between the TB and HIV epidemics are scarce (4). Our objective was to determine the extent of this dual epidemic in our setting, a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. We did this by introducing bedside TB and...