TY - JOUR
T1 - HIV and tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 1997-2002
AU - Tran, Ngoc Buu
AU - Houben, Rein M. G. J.
AU - Hoang, Thi Quy
AU - Nguyen, Thi Ngoc Lan
AU - Borgdorff, Martien W.
AU - Cobelens, Frank G. J.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, reporting rates for tuberculosis (TB) are rising in an emerging HIV epidemic. To describe the HIV epidemic among TB patients and quantify its impact on rates of reported TB, we performed a repeated cross-sectional survey from 1997 through 2002 in a randomly selected sample of inner city TB patients. We assessed effect by adjusting TB case reporting rates by the fraction of TB cases attributable to HIV infection. HIV prevalence in TB patients rose exponentially from 1.5% to 9.0% during the study period. Young ( <35 years), single, male patients were mostly affected; injection drug use was a potent risk factor. After correction for HIV infection, the trend in TB reporting rates changed from a 1.9% increase to a 0.4% decrease per year. An emerging HIV epidemic, concentrated in young, male, injection drug users, is responsible for increased TB reporting rates in urban Vietnam
AB - In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, reporting rates for tuberculosis (TB) are rising in an emerging HIV epidemic. To describe the HIV epidemic among TB patients and quantify its impact on rates of reported TB, we performed a repeated cross-sectional survey from 1997 through 2002 in a randomly selected sample of inner city TB patients. We assessed effect by adjusting TB case reporting rates by the fraction of TB cases attributable to HIV infection. HIV prevalence in TB patients rose exponentially from 1.5% to 9.0% during the study period. Young ( <35 years), single, male patients were mostly affected; injection drug use was a potent risk factor. After correction for HIV infection, the trend in TB reporting rates changed from a 1.9% increase to a 0.4% decrease per year. An emerging HIV epidemic, concentrated in young, male, injection drug users, is responsible for increased TB reporting rates in urban Vietnam
U2 - https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1309.060774
DO - https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1309.060774
M3 - Article
C2 - 18257988
SN - 1080-6040
VL - 13
SP - 1463
EP - 1469
JO - Emerging infectious diseases
JF - Emerging infectious diseases
IS - 10
ER -