Paradigm shift to address drug resistant tuberculosis in people living with HIV needed, and needed now

Authors: Getahun, Haileyesus¹; Havlir, Diane²; Granich, Reuben³; Reid, Alasdair⁴; Jaramillo, Ernesto¹; Nunn, Paul¹

Source: Tropical Medicine & International Health, Volume 14, Number 4, April 2009 , pp. 376-378(3)

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Keywords: tuberculosis; multi-drug resistant tuberculosis; extensively drug resistant tuberculosis; HIV; AIDS; HIV-associated tuberculosis; TB/HIV

Document Type: Editorial

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02266.x

Affiliations: 1: Stop TB Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 2: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA 3: HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 4: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Geneva, Switzerland

Publication date: 2009-04-01