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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 119-124 |
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Prevalence of tuberculosis-HIV co-infection and factors associated with treatment outcome among the tuberculosis patients in HIV treatment facility in a teaching hospital in Jos, North Central Nigeria
Sunday Asuke, John Bimba, Swem Micheal Ngutor, Eunice Ejiga, Shanabo Z Miracle, Dorcas M Anamayi
Department of Community Medicine and Primary Health Care, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Jos Campus, Bingham University, New Karu, Nasarawa State, Nigeria
Correspondence Address:
Sunday Asuke
Department of Community Medicine and PHC, College of Health Sciences, Jos Campus, Bingham University, New Karu, Nassarawa State, Nasarawa State
Nigeria
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/phmj.phmj_14_20
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Background: Globally, tuberculosis (TB) remains a disease of grave public health concern. It ranks above HIV/AIDS as the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, and as one of the 10 most common causes of mortality. This study assessed the prevalence of TB-HIV co-infection and factors associated with treatment outcome among the TB patients in an HIV treatment facility in a Teaching hospital in Jos, North central Nigeria.
Methods: A 10-year retrospective, descriptive cross-sectional review was conducted and data was extracted through the review of TB registers. Data were analysed using SPSS version 20 and bivariate analyses was conducted at P < 0.05.
Results: The prevalence of TB-HIV co-infection was 9.25%, with the mean age of the study participants being 41.8 ± 11.6 years. Of all the participants, 87.5% had successful treatment outcome, while 12.5% had unsuccessful treatment outcome. In the bivariate analysis, place of residence was the only socio-demographic factor significantly associated with treatment outcome (<0.001).
Conclusion: The TB-HIV co-infection prevalence rate was about 10% of the total HIV population with a high TB treatment success rate. With the exception of place of residence, no other factor had statistically significant relationship with the treatment outcome.
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