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Saving lives : preventing, finding, and curing childhood and adolescent TB and HIV
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Description:Out of the 10.4 million new global tuberculosis cases (TB) in 2015, 1 million occurred in children under 15 years of age, with at least 210,000 child deaths when including children living with HIV1. Children living with HIV are more likely to die once infected with TB2 – the leading infectious cause of death among people living with HIV. Preventing, finding, and curing TB are critical to reducing childhood mortality, especially for HIV-infected children.
The World Health Organization recommends that HIV programs routinely conduct intensified TB case-finding to diagnose all cases of TB; give TB preventive therapy and implement proper TB infection control measures to prevent additional TB cases; and provide optimal care for children (<15 years) and adolescents (15 to 19 years old) living with HIV. As part of support to country programs, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) encourages the appropriate diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of TB in children and adolescents according to World Health Organization policy3,4,5 and national guidelines.
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