George Tembo

TL;DR: The high prevalence of HIV in patients with tuberculosis suggests that an epidemic of reactivating tuberculosis is arising in those who are infected with HIV, and the redirection of public health priorities towards tuberculosis would focus on a major treatable and preventable complication of the AIDS epidemic.

TL;DR: Vertical transmission from infected mothers to their babies is high in Zambia and prognosis is poor for the babies, and perinatal transmission and paediatric AIDS must be reduced by screening young women and counselling those positive for HIV-I against future pregnancy.

TL;DR: Although screening and treatment during intervention was suboptimal, the adverse outcomes attributable to syphilis were reduced to 28.3%; this is almost a two-third reduction when compared with 72.4% of adverse outcomes at control centres (p < less than 0.001).

TL;DR: Two hundred and forty-nine patients with tuberculosis were recruited to a cohort study to investigate the interaction between tuberculosis and HIV in Lusaka, Zambia; findings at presentation are presented here.

TL;DR: Risk factors for death in HIV-positive patients included multi-site tuberculosis, history of prolonged diarrhoea or fever, oral thrush, splenomegaly, anergy to tuberculin, low weight, anaemia or lymphopenia, and poor compliance with regimens containing rifampicin and pyrazinamide.