Antiretroviral therapy (ART), while essential in combatting tuberculosis (TB) and HIV
coinfection, is often complicated by the TB-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory …

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health burden. There still remains a
large gap between the notified and estimated incident cases. Extrapulmonary (EP) TB …

Introduction Tuberculous meningitis accounts for 1–5% of tuberculosis cases. Diagnostic
delay contributes to poor outcomes. We evaluated the performance of the new Xpert …

Background Early diagnosis of HIV infection and early initiation of ART before
immunosuppression is the most important strategy to reduce the incidence of CM and CM …

Background Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection can be diagnosed clinically once classical
rash occurs but the diagnosis is challenging when typical rash is absent. We reported a case …

Background Diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) remains challenging. We sought
to determine the prevalence of disseminated TB by testing urine with TB-lipoarabinomannan …

The lethal combination involving TB and HIV, known as “syndemic” diseases, synergistically
act upon one another to magnify the disease burden. Individuals on anti-retroviral therapy …

Cryptococcosis is a systemic mycosis that causes pneumonia and meningoencephalitis.
Strongyloidiasis is a chronic gastrointestinal infection caused by parasites of the genus …

Tuberculosis (TB) and cryptococcal meningitis are leading causes of morbidity and mortality
in advanced HIV disease. Data are limited on TB co-infection among individuals with …

In September 2018, the United Nations General Assembly held the first ever meeting to
discuss the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and adopted a political declaration titled …