Journal of Infectious Diseases and Diagnosis

Depatmrent of Health Sciences, Agostinho Neto University, Luanda, Angola

Publications

• Research Article   
  Risk Factors Related to HIV Infection among TB Patients in Luanda, Angola
  Author(s): Cruz S. Sebastiao*, Joao Samulengo, Joana Paixao, Euclides Sacomboio, Antonio Mateus, Zinga David, Jocelyne Neto de Vasconcelos and Joana Morais*
  
  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. Here in, 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 2016 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 pol.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2576-389X.23.8.212

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