Report of the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research and TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership Symposium and Roundtable Discussions on HIV/TB
- Author:
- Written on behalf of all presenters, panelists and discussants by Nyasha Bakare and edited by Veronica Miller
- Publisher:
- Forum for Collaborative HIV Research
- Publication Date:
- 1 January 2004
- Tags:
- HIV-Aids and STDs, Tuberculosis, Environment
This report expresses the finding that the largely unnoticed collision of the global epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) has exploded to create a deadly co-epidemic that is rapidly spreading in sub-Saharan Africa. However, health systems cannot adequately diagnose, treat, or contain the co-epidemic due to unanswered scientific and medical questions.