A review of tuberculosis treatment in HIV/AIDS patients

ABSTRACT

Tuberculosis treatment in HIV/AIDS patients was usually difficult, complex and expensive but the successful rate was low. The responses of tuberculosis treatments were depended on each stage of HIV infection. In patients with HIV who didn’t change yet into AIDS had good responses of tuberculosis treatments but the recurrent rate was rather high. In patients with AIDS, most of responses to tuberculosis treatments were bad; treatment failures and death rate were high. In addition, multi-resistant tuberculosis usually occurred in patients with HIV/AIDS. Therefore, it was necessary to firmly apply preventive principles, to manage patients with tuberculosis/HIV in the preventive and control tuberculosis and HIV programme in community, especially using DOT