Revista española de salud pública
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Rev. Esp. Salud Publica · Sep 1999
Comparative Study[Control of tuberculosis in relation to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Work Group at the Secretariat of the National Plan on AIDS].
On April 7, 1999, the Monographic Meeting on HIV Infection and Tuberculosis was held at the Secretariat of the National AIDS Plan for the purpose of setting out certain clinical and health care policy recommendations concerning the control of tuberculosis (TB) with regard to the HIV infection epidemic, those in attendance being listed in Appendix 1. This meeting was organized into a number of presentations of papers (Appendix 2) grouped into four subject areas, which were followed by the pertinent debates. These four areas were as follows: 1. ⋯ This report provides no systematic or sufficiently detailed review of the different topics analyzed, therefore opting with regard to the bibliography to recommend a number of brief articles and reference books as a general source for further consultation. In this report, the term of "dual" TB-HIV infection is used generally and, in others the more specific "dual TB-AIDS disease", depending upon the presence of infection or disease caused by M. Tuberculosis and also AIDS, therefore, in the latter case.