HIV and Hepatitis.com Articles on Tuberculosis
U.S. Public Health Service Tuberculosis Guidelines What Is the Optimal TB Therapy Duration for Preventing Relapse in HIV Patients on HAART? - 2/24/06 Once Daily Regimen of Saquinavir, Ritonavir, Didanosine, and Lamivudine in HIV Patients on Standard Tuberculosis Therapy - 11/02/05 Bayer Offers Moxifloxacin, a Promising New Antibiotic in the Fight against TB and AIDS - 10/19/05 Appropriate Dose of Efavirenz Is Unclear for HIV Patients with Tuberculosis Receiving HAART and Rifampicin - 9/23/05 The Importance of Recent Infection with Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in an Area with High HIV Prevalence - 7/11/05 Outcome of Tuberculosis in HIV Positive Children - 7/06/05 Promising New Anti-tuberculosis Drug PA-824 Enters Clinical Trials - 6/15/05 Immune Reconstitution Disease Is Associated with Mycobacterial Infections in HIV Patients Receiving Antiretrovirals - 6/08/05 Tuberculosis: An Old Disease Needs New Cures - 3/28/05 Global Campaign Against Tuberculosis Makes Headway, but AIDS and Africa Have Big Problems - 3/25/05 Toward Defining the Incidence, Risk Factors and Long-term Outcome of a Unique, HAART-related Disease: Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS) - 3/11/05 Short-Course Therapy with Rifampin plus Isoniazid, Compared with Standard Therapy with Isoniazid, for Latent Tuberculosis Infection - 2/14/05 Incidence of Immune Reconstitution Syndrome in HIV-Tuberculosis Coinfected Patients in India - 2/11/05 Roche Issues Drug Interaction Warning on Hepatocellular Toxicity in Healthy Volunteers Receiving TB Drug Rifampin and Saquinavir/Ritonavir - 2/09/05 Cotrimoxazole Prophylaxis for TB Effectively Reduces Adult Death Rates in Rural South Africa - 2/09/05 Pharmacokinetic Study of Tenofovir Combined with Rifampin in Healthy Volunteers - 2/07/05 Effectiveness of Generic Fixed-Dose Combinations of HAART in India - 2/07/05 The Risk of Acquiring Tuberculosis (TB) Increases Rapidly After Infection with HIV - 1/05/05 Implications of the Increased Risk of Tuberculosis (TB) During the Course of HIV Infection - 1/05/05 Therapeutic Response of HIV-1 Subtype C in African Patients Coinfected with either Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Human Herpesvirus 8 - 1/03/05 The Extraordinary Hope of Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa (Even for Patients with Tuberculosis or Kaposi Sarcoma!) - 1/03/05 The Effect of Clarithromycin, Fluconazole, and Rifabutin on Sulfamethoxazole Hydroxylamine Formation in HIV Patients (AACTG 283) - 10/29/04 Two 8-month Regimens of Chemotherapy for Treatment of Tuberculosis Found Inferior to 6-month Standard Regimen - 10/25/04 Adjunctive Dexamethasone Improves Survival in Tuberculous Meningitis - 10/22/04 Outcome of HIV-Associated Tuberculosis in the HAART Era - 10/13/04 Does Tuberculosis Increase HIV Load? - 10/13/04 Combined TB/HIV Care Could Save 500,000 Lives in Africa Every Year, UN Says - 09/22/04 Paradoxical Reactions Are Common During Tuberculosis Treatment - 09/10/04 Safety and Effectiveness of Efavirenz with and without Rifampicin for the Treatment of Antiretroviral-naïve Patients Coinfected with Tuberculosis and HIV - 09/01/04 Use of Prednisolone in HIV-associated Tuberculous Pleurisy Is Not Recommended - 08/16/04 Does Co-administration of Rifampicin and Fluconazole Negatively Impact the Clinical Status of Patients with AIDS and Cryptococcal Meningitis? - 08/13/04 Paradoxical Reactions During Treatment of Tuberculosis in Patients with and without HIV Infection - 08/06/04 Isoniazid Prophylaxis Has an Early and Significant Survival Benefit and Reduces TB in HIV Positive Children in Africa - 07/21/04 Strategy for Successful Treatment of TB and HIV - 07/19/04 Incidence of Tuberculosis Pre and Post Introduction of ART in a Setting of High Tuberculosis-HIV Co-morbidity 7-12-04 Efavirenz 600 mg/day Versus 800 mg/day in HIV-infected Patients with Tuberculosis 7-12-04 Incidence of Tuberculosis Pre and Post Introduction of ART in a Setting of High Tuberculosis-HIV Co-morbidity - 07/12/04 Lopinavir-Ritonavir Dose Adjustment and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Monitoring of Liver Function May Allow Concomitant Use of Rifampin in HIV Patients with Tuberculosis - 06/18/04 HIV Coinfection Does Not Alter Initial Clinical Presentation of Tuberculosis 03/03/04
Tuberculosis Treatment and Resources Links
Updated Guidelines for the Use of Rifamycins for the Treatment of Tuberculosis Among HIV-Infected Patients Taking Protease Inhibitors or Nonnucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors - January 20, 2004
Government Links:
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
Outside Links:
Ending Neglect: The Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States, Institute of Medicine report, 2000
Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
The World Health Organization (WHO)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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