Community-Wide Universal Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Test and Treat Intervention Reduces Tuberculosis Transmission in Rural Uganda: A Cluster-Randomized Trial.
Carina MarquezMucunguzi AtukundaJoshua NugentEdwin D CharleboisGabriel ChamieFlorence MwangwaEmmanuel SsemmondoJoel KirondeJane KabamiAsiphas OwaraganiseElijah KakandeBob SsekaynziRachel AbbottJames AyiekoTheodore RuelDalsone KwariisimaMoses KamyaMaya PetersenDiane V HavlirLaura B BalzerPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2024)
A universal HIV-test-and-treat intervention reduced incident TB infection, a marker of population-level TB transmission. Investments in community-level HIV interventions have broader population-level benefits, including TB reductions.
Keyphrases
- human immunodeficiency virus
- antiretroviral therapy
- hiv infected
- hepatitis c virus
- hiv positive
- hiv aids
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- hiv testing
- randomized controlled trial
- men who have sex with men
- mental health
- south africa
- healthcare
- physical activity
- cardiovascular disease
- emergency department
- type diabetes
- pulmonary tuberculosis
- adverse drug
- electronic health record