HIV infection and tuberculosis in South Africa: an urgent need to escalate the public health response.

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Published in Lancet on August 24, 2009

Authors

Salim S Abdool Karim1, Gavin J Churchyard, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Stephen D Lawn

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Doris Duke Medical Research Institute, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. karims1@ukzn.ac.za

Associated clinical trials:

Safety and Tolerability of Metformin in People With Tuberculosis (TB) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (METHOD) | NCT04930744

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