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Resources

These pages are intended to provide useful resources for TB advocates and links to other sites where additional information on TB advocacy resources can be found.

TB/MDR-TB Advocacy Tool Kit

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TB and HIV/AIDS

People Living with HIV (PLHIV) have a higher risk of MDR-TB, with an increased mortality up to 90% or more, and greatly reduced survival time. Early diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant TB is thus essential but complicated. Management of drug interactions with antiretroviral therapy (ART) and anti-TB treatment is also a major challenge, due to frequent severe toxicities and adverse events experienced when combining second-line anti-TB drugs and ART. More...