HIV makes TB worse
- TB can resemble HIV infection in children
- The usual tests to find TB are often not helpful in HIV infected kids
- Children with co-infection (infected with both TB & HIV) are more likely to have rapid disease and have more recurrence of TB
- The risk of active TB is higher in HIV infected children (up to 20 times higher in infants)1
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Co-infection is found in the most vulnerable populations
- People with HIV & TB are more likely to live in poverty
- Children get both HIV and TB from people in the household, those who care for them the most
- HIV worsens malnutrition, increasing the risk of acquiring TB
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Children co-infected with both
HIV and TB are more likely to die
- Children with severe malnutrition, young age and severe HIV are more likely to die 2
- More than one-third of co- infected HIV/ TB infected children will die 3
- HIV/TB co-infected children have six-fold higher mortality than HIV negative children 3
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