Туберкулез и болезни лёгких (Oct 2017)
TUBERCULOSIS WITH CONCURRENT HIV INFECTION IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE WORLD
Abstract
The article presents the data on the formation of the WHO global statistics on tuberculosis with concurrent HIV infection, which is given in the Global TB Reports. The information published on this issue in the WHO Global Reports for the WHO regions and countries of the world is compared to the data in the relevant reporting forms in the Russian Federation. The article contemplates the estimate of the main rates reflecting HIV infection prevalence among TB patients and mortality in TB/HIV patients in the countries of the world and registration of cases of TB/HIV co-infection and deaths of TB/HIV patients due to manifestations of tuberculous infection. The data presented in this article include the comparison of the values estimated by WHO, which are needed for organization of control over TB/HIV transmission, and their registered values in the Russian Federation, various countries of the world and countries of the WHO European Region. The article analyzes the data of the WHO Global Reports on the coverage with regular screening and preventive TB treatment of the people living with HIV and coverage of TB/HIV patients with antiretroviral therapy. When studying the data on treatment outcomes in TB/HIV patients in the WHO regions and the world, it was supposed that obtained results greatly depended on the way of the cohort formation in different countries of the world.
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