Living with HIV and other diseases, cancer or opportunistic infections
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of death among people living with HIV, causing one third of AIDS-related deaths globally.
What will happen to HIV and TB under COVID-19? Our editor-in-chief Mia Malan spoke to an excellent panel to answer this question.
With the rapid spread of COVID-19 across Africa, m2m President & CEO, Frank Beadle de Palomo, looks at how countries and organisations are harnessing lessons learned from the HIV/AIDS response to mitigate the impact of this new pandemic.
BACKGROUND: Gauteng Province has the second lowest tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate in South Africa but the greatest proportion of TB/HIV co-infectio
In 2017, tuberculosis caused an estimated 1·6 million deaths, including 300 000 deaths among people with HIV, and surpassed HIV/AIDS to become the leading infectious cause of mortality worldwide. Approximately 36% of tuberculosis cases each year (around 3·5 million cases) are not diagnosed or rep