Tuberculosis and HIV infection

ABSTRACT

Infection with TB in Malawi continues to rise with about 9000 TB patients notified in 1989. It has been shown that immunodepression promotes the progression of latent TB infection to clinical disease. Widespread HIV infection would be expected to alter the dynamics of TB in the population and is being observed with the increase in TB patients mainly the young; sexually active age group where both HIV and TB infection prevalence are high