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TB
& HIV Survey and Workshop
> Report
of the TB/HIV Integration workshop
TB and HIV
One in four tuberculosis (TB) deaths is HIV-related. This year dramatic
new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that rates
of TB-HIV co-infection are twice as high as originally estimated.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, HIV has caused TB incidence to triple since
the 1990s and in some countries 80% of TB patients are co-infected
with HIV. Since up to half of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)
develop tuberculosis, and tuberculosis has an adverse effect on
HIV progression, tuberculosis care and prevention should be priority
concerns of HIV/AIDS programmes, and HIV/AIDS prevention and care
should be priority concerns of TB programmes.
Workshop on TB/HIV
Collaborative Work, 26 October 2009
The workshop was a joint initiative of the UK Consortium on AIDS
and International Development, the UK Coalition to Stop TB and Action
for Global Health. It was aimed at examining issues identified during
a recent survey on TB/HIV collaborative work conducted among members
of the AIDS Consortium and TB Coalition. Presentation can be downloaded
from the links below. The report of the workshop will be added shortly.
Presentations from the workshop:
Belinda Atim, TB Alert/Action for Global Health Advocate
TB/HIV Survey
View Power point
file (351 KB)
Clare Shaw, Target Tuberculosis
The Impact on TB control projects in Africa and Asia: Target
TB's field experience
View Power point
file (1.77 MB)
John Walley, Prof Intn Public Health, Nuffield Centre IHD, LIHS,
Leeds
TB-HIV-ART care Swaziland: Hospital, Health Centre &
Community Care
View Power point
file (3.8 MB)
Ade Fakoya, International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Steps towards community-based HIV/TB integrated work
View Power point
file (2.36 MB)
Survey on TB/HIV Collaborative Work,
September-October 2009
A lack of integrated TB and HIV services is one of the biggest problems
in controlling these two epidemics. Only 1% of people living with
HIV in 2008 had been screened for TB.The purpose of this survey
was to identify among members of the UK Consortium on AIDS and International
Development key issues regarding HIV and TB collaborative work.
Results of the survey (see link to report, right) will be further
examined during a workshop to be conducted in collaboration with
the UK Coalition to Stop TB and Action for Global Health on 26 October
2009.
Report:
Survey on TB/HIV Collaborative Work (2009)
View
'Word' file
The UK Coalition
to Stop TB
The UK Coalition to Stop TB is an alliance
of 30 UK-based organisations and individuals who share a commitment
to fight TB – a preventable and treatable disease that kills
1.7 million people worldwide each year. The Coalition has been formed
to increase the level of awareness, commitment and political will
to stop TB through a unified voice and co-ordinated actions. It
aims to add weight to existing efforts and provide greater influence
and impact through harnessing the skills, capacity and energy of
all its members. Membership of the UK Coalition to Stop TB is open
to organisations and individuals working to address the TB epidemic
in the UK and internationally, including NGOs, the private sector,
media, advocates, academic institutions and professional organisations.
Action for Global Health
Action for Global Health was established in October 2006, bringing
together 15 non-governmental organisations based in Brussels, France,
Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK to call for Europe to take urgent
action to enable developing countries to meet the health-related
Millennium Development Goals by 2015. In the UK, Action for Global
Health is represented by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Interact
Worldwide and TB Alert.
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