HIV and tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1997-2002.
- Tran, Ngoc Buu
- Houben, Rein MGJ
- Hoang, Thi Quy
- Nguyen, Thi Ngoc Lan
- Borgdorff, Martien W
- Cobelens, Frank GJ
DOIAbstract
In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, reporting rates for tuberculosis (TB) are rising in an emerging HIV epidemic. To describe the HIV epidemic among TB patients and quantify its impact on rates of reported TB, we performed a repeated cross-sectional survey from 1997 through 2002 in a randomly selected sample of inner city TB patients. We assessed effect by adjusting TB case reporting rates by the fraction of TB cases attributable to HIV infection. HIV prevalence in TB patients rose exponentially from 1.5% to 9.0% during the study period. Young (<35 years), single, male patients were mostly affected; injection drug use was a potent risk factor. After correction for HIV infection, the trend in TB reporting rates changed from a 1.9% increase to a 0....
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