HIV and AIDS
- Born, lived and died - but counted or not?
- This brief - which is the second in the series of "Studies of HIV in African communities 'Highlights'" - explains the importance of knowing who dies of what, and how we can establish cause-of-death information in the absence of formally recorded deaths.
Latest Additions
- Efforts to confront the deadly combination of TB and HIV need to be scaled up
- ( Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , 2011)
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Tuberculosis (TB) is the main cause of death in people living with HIV. This report is a call that TB should not be a death sentence for a two million people living with HIV and expected to die of ...
- The implementation of collaborative TB/HIV activities in a Cameroonian district hospital
- ( H.A. Yumo;C. Kuaban;F. Neuhann / National Centre for Biotechnology Information, USA , 2011)
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In response to the need of integrating tuberculosis (TB)/HIV activities, the WHO in 2004 mapped out a number of key activities to be implemented by countries to ensure effective collaboration betwe...
- Lay perceptions of the relationship between TB and HIV in Ethiopia
- ( M.K. Gebremariam;G.A. Bjune;J.C. Frich / BioMed Central , 2011)
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Knowledge about lay perceptions of the relationship between tuberculosis (TB) and HIV is important for understanding patients’ health seeking behaviour and adherence to treatment. This study ...
- When should patients co-infected with TB and HIV start ART in Malawi?
- ( M.V. Lettow;A.K. Chan;A.S. Ginsburg / Ingenta , 2011)
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Malawian policy to invite patients co-infected with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV to start antiretroviral therapy (ART) 2 months after initiating TB treatment changed recently; the new policy shortened...
- How do we know who dies of what?
- ( Knowledge Services, IDS , 2012)
- "Born, lived and died - but counted or not?" is the second in the "Studies of HIV in African communities 'Highlights'" series. It was produced by IDS Knowledge Services with partne...
