title: Global evidence directing regional preventive strategies in Southeast Asia for fighting TB/HIV.
abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-epidemics form a huge burden of disease in the Southeast Asia region. Five out of eleven nations in this region are high TB/HIV burden countries: Myanmar, Thailand, India, Indonesia and Nepal. The trends of TB incidence in these countries have been rising in recent years, in contrast to a falling global trend. Experts in the field of TB control and health service providers have been perplexed by the association of TB and HIV infections which causes a mosaic clinical presentation, a unique course with poor treatment outcomes including death. We conducted a review of contemporary evidence relating to TB/HIV control with the aims of assisting integrated health system responses in Southeast Asia and demystifying current evidence to facilitate translating it into practice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. dr.myonyeinaung@gmail.com
authors.forename: Myo Nyein
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Aung
authors.forename: Saiyud
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moolphate
authors.forename: Damodar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Paudel
authors.forename: Mangalasiri
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jayathunge Ph
authors.forename: Duangjai
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Duangrithi
authors.forename: Kinley
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wangdi
authors.forename: Thin Nyein Nyein
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Aung
authors.forename: Thaworn
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lorga
authors.forename: Kazue
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Higuchi
mesh_terms: D001210:Asia, Southeastern / Q000453:epidemiology; D060085:Coinfection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control