KEY FACTS ON TB - HIV CORRELATION


KEY FACTS ON TB - HIV CORRELATION:   
•TB is the leading killer of people with HIV. About one in five AIDS-related deaths in 2012 were attributed to TB.
•At least one third of the 35.3 million people living with HIV worldwide are infected with latent TB.
•According to the World Health Organization, people living with HIV are 30 times more likely to develop tuberculosis.
•Despite the fact that TB is curable and HIV is treatable, out of the 1.3 million TB deaths in 2012, 320,000 died of HIV-associated TB. Half of these deaths were in women.
•An estimated 1.1 million (13%) of the 8.6 million people who developed TB in 2012 were HIV-positive—75% of them in the Africa Region. Early diagnosis, timely initiation of treatment for both diseases and careful monitoring are essential to treat TB in people living with HIV and identify HIV infection in people with TB.
•The number of people living with HIV who were screened for TB increased to 4.1 million in 2012, (up from 3.5 million in 2011), but this is still only 11%. 46% of the TB patients knew their HIV status.
•Of the TB patients found to be living with HIV in 2012, 57% were enrolled on antiretroviral treatment (up from 49% in 2011). As in the past few years, about 80% of HIV-positive TB patients were treated with the standard recommended co-trimoxazole preventive therapy.
•9.7 million people in low- and middle-income countries are on antiretroviral therapy (ART), but 16 more million are eligible under new treatment guidelines but lack access.
•Of the reported 1.6 million people newly enrolled in HIV care in 2012, 0.5 million (31%) were provided with isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT).
•People living with HIV are facing emerging threats of drug resistant TB such as multidrug resistant (MDR) TB and extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB.

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