CHENNAI: The biggest challenge healthcare professionals face on this year’s World Tuberculosis Day, which falls on Wednesday, is finding ways to break the vicious link between tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. With 60 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHAs) having contracted tuberculosis, the problem is huge.Though TN has one of the most intensive TB cont r o l p r o - grammes, the health department is yet to bring hospitals in the private sector under the programme.Senior clinician at the Tuberculosis Research Centre Dr Jawahar said that TB was the commonest infection contracted by PLHAs.The HIV epidemic has led to an increase in the number of people with TB, he said.One of the main challenges for the government’s TB control programme is curbing the increasing rate of HIV infections. If HIV/AIDS were tackled, it would be much easier to wipe out TB.Compulsory screening of PLHAs for TB and those with TB for HIV/AIDS would go a long way in solving the problem, Dr Jawahar said.
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