Early HIV treatment dramatically increases survival in patients co-infected with tuberculosis
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 18:30
in Health & Medicine
Timing is everything when treating patients with both HIV and tuberculosis. Starting HIV therapy in such patients within two weeks of TB treatment, rather than two months as is the current practice, increases survival by 33 percent, according to a large-scale clinical trial in Cambodia led by researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and the Immune Disease Institute (IDI).