Tuberculose em doentes com Sida. Tratamento completo sob observação directa##Projecto de investigação subsidiado pela Comissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA

SUMMARYHIV and tuberculosis co-infection has an enormous impact on public health. Inadequate patient compliance for tuberculosis therapy, especially in intravenous drug-abusers (IVDA), has contributed to increased mortality and morbidity rates, as well as a renewed activity of multi-resistant tuberculosis and its dissemination in the community.Taken into consideration results obtained between 1986 and 1997, the authors´ main objective was to initiate a program whose main purpose was to improve patient compliance in HIV-positive IVDA undergoing treatment for tuberculosis. This two-year program stipulated a daily directly observed tuberculosis treatment in conjunction with methadone.Through various observed parameters, we present the results obtained in this study, and hope to point out that the comparison of the results registered in the patients treated between 1986-97 and those of the present study, suggest a continuation of these methodologies and their general usage.REV PORT PNEUMOL 2001; VII (3)