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Tuberculosis patients who tested positive for HIV

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What you should know about this indicator

  • People with tuberculosis (TB) are strongly advised to be tested for HIV because HIV weakens the immune system, increasing vulnerability to TB and complicating treatment outcomes.
  • The proportion of TB patients testing positive for HIV reflects how well HIV-TB coinfection is being identified in clinical settings, guiding coordinated treatment and prevention.
  • Early detection of HIV in TB patients enables timely antiretroviral therapy and TB treatment, which can significantly lower the risk of severe illness and death.
Tuberculosis patients who tested positive for HIV
Estimated number of tuberculosis (new and relapsed) patients that tested positive for HIV.
Source
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (2024) – with minor processing by
Last updated
January 22, 2025
Date range
1999–2021
Unit
patients

Related research and writing

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HIV / AIDS

Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie

Sources and processing

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UNAIDS leads the world's most extensive data collection on HIV epidemiology, programme coverage and finance and publishes the most authoritative and up-to-date information on the HIV epidemic.

In some cases there is no data for some country and year. This can be a result of very small epidemics among women in the reproductive age which makes estimation of the mother to child transmission very unstable. Another reason for missing data is that relevant authorities may have asked UNAIDS not to share their estimates.

This UNAIDS 2024 report brings together new data and case studies which demonstrate that the decisions and policy choices taken by world leaders this year will decide the fate of millions of lives and whether the world's deadliest pandemic is overcome.

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The urgency of now: AIDS at a crossroads. Geneva: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; 2024. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Full report:

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“Data Page: Tuberculosis patients who tested positive for HIV”, part of the following publication: Max Roser and Hannah Ritchie (2023) - “HIV / AIDS”. Data adapted from Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Retrieved from /grapher/tb-patients-tested-positive-for-hiv [online resource]
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Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (2024) – with minor processing by

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Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (2024) – with minor processing by . “Tuberculosis patients who tested positive for HIV” [dataset]. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, “Global AIDS Update” [original data]. Retrieved April 29, 2025 from /grapher/tb-patients-tested-positive-for-hiv