Document 0692
 DOCN  M95A0692
 TI    Tuberculosis rising in areas with high HIV rates. 
 DT    9510
 SO    AIDS Alert. 1995 Apr;10(4):58-9. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       AIDS/95700229
 AB    The incidence of tuberculosis (TB), particularly multidrug-resistant TB,
       is rising among HIV-infected men and women, showing that diagnosis is
       critical to prevention and treatment of the disease. A speaker at the
       national conference on HIV infection in women, sponsored by the National
       Institutes of Health in Washington, DC, February, 1995, told providers
       that preventive therapy can substantially reduce the HIV-infected
       patient's risk of developing active clinical tuberculosis. Since
       noncompliance is a major deterrent to successful prevention, the speaker
       stressed the importance of monitoring patients identified with TB on a
       monthly basis. According to the CDC, 25,287 cases of active TB were
       reported in 1993; about 38 percent of which were among HIV-infected men
       and women.
 DE    AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/DIAGNOSIS/*EPIDEMIOLOGY  Female
       HIV Infections/*COMPLICATIONS  Human  Male
       Tuberculosis/DIAGNOSIS/*EPIDEMIOLOGY  NEWSLETTER ARTICLE

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