HIV-Associated Tuberculosis

-An estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV worldwide fell ill with TB in 2015.
- TB is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV, accounting for some 390,000 people who died from HIV-associated TB in 2015.
- Africa accounted for 75% of all deaths.
- Globally people living with HIV are 19 times (17 – 22) more likely to fall ill with TB than those without HIV.
- People living with HIV face the threat of drug-resistant TB. If diagnosis is delayed there is increased risk of mortality from multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant TB.