Epidemiology of tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients in Primorsky territory (Russian Fe deration)

Abstract

An analysis of the incidence of tuberculosis, HIV infection and co-infection in the Primorsky Territory for 10 years showed that the absence of a tendency to a decrease in the incidence of co-infection is due to an increase in the incidence of HIV infection. This conclusion was confirmed by a decrease of almost 2 times the incidence of tuberculosis, while the incidence of HIV infection, on the contrary, increased almost 2 times. In 2008–2017. the incidence of co-infection, as well as the incidence of tuberculosis in the region, exceeds the data for the country as a whole. Prognostically unfavorable can be called an increase in the prevalence of co-infection. It should be noted that it is necessary to understand the coding of the causes of death during co-infection. The findings require an increase in the level of joint work of TB doctors and infectious disease specialists in organizing antituberculosis activities among HIV-infected people.