Early detection of TB remains a challenge in PLHIV https://ift.tt/Ze1oYBP

The constitutional symptoms of HIV and TB are similar, early detection of TB is always a challenge. According to the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 globally, 44 per cent of people with HIV-associated TB were not diagnosed in 2019. Autopsy studies among individuals who had died from AIDS report that almost half (46 per cent) of them had TB that had not been detected prior to death. Enhancing the detection of TB among people living with HIV is therefore critical.

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