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Risk Factors Related to HIV Infection among TB Patients in Luanda, Angola

Version 1 : Received: 31 October 2022 / Approved: 1 November 2022 / Online: 1 November 2022 (07:13:56 CET)

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Sebastiao CS, Samulengo J, Paixao J, Sacomboio E, Mateus A, David Z, et al. (2023) Risk Factors Related to HIV Infection among TB Patients in Luanda, Angola. J Infect Dis Diagn. 8:212. Sebastiao CS, Samulengo J, Paixao J, Sacomboio E, Mateus A, David Z, et al. (2023) Risk Factors Related to HIV Infection among TB Patients in Luanda, Angola. J Infect Dis Diagn. 8:212.

Abstract

TB and HIV continue to increase and constitute major public health concerns worldwide, mainly in resource-limited countries, showing that we are not going to end HIV if we do not also end TB. Herein, we investigated the risk factors related to HIV infection among TB patients in Luanda, the capital city of Angola. This was a retrospective cohort study conducted on the medical records of 117 TB patients from January to September 2016. Overall, the HIV/TB co-infection rate was 12%. The mean age of coinfected patients was 37.7±10.1 years. No statistically significant relationship was observed between sociodemographic or clinical features with HIV/TB co-infection (p>0.05). TB patients aged 30 years or older (OR: 4.13, p=0.072), female (OR: 1.08, p=0.898), residing in urbanized areas (OR: 1.90, p=0.578), with a history of treatment abandonment (OR: 3.74, p=0.083), with polyresistance (OR: 1.62, p=0.603), and MDR-TB (OR: 2.00, p=0.454), were more likely to have HIV/TB co-infection, while latent TB infection (OR: 0.63, p=0.559) and treatment-susceptible TB patients (OR: 0.56, p=0.616), presented a lower chance of HIV/TB coinfection. Our finding showed a slightly high HIV/TB coinfected rate, which suggests that the dual HIV/TB epidemic keeps evolving and poses a huge concern to the public health in Angola. Further studies on features related to HIV/TB coinfection and its impact on disease progression and clinical outcome in adults from high-risk Angolan communities, should be carried out to intensify and strengthen collaborative activities between national TB and HIV programs in Angola.

Keywords

Tuberculosis; HIV; coinfection; Risk factors; Luanda; Angola

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases

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