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Easy-to-read and illustrated information on treatment for HIV and TB (tuberculosis).

If TB is making you ill and you also have HIV, then you usually need to take treatment for both TB and HIV.

You can kill TB bacteria with anti-TB drugs. You can make your immune system stronger with HIV drugs. This will help prevent you catching TB again in the future.

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Treatment for TB and HIV
Roger Pebody

Roger Pebody

Commissioning Editor

Roger joined aidsmap in 2008 and was Managing Editor from 2018 to 2024. As a freelancer, he now edits aidsmap’s news and conference coverage, as well as working on updates to About HIV pages. He is also a contributing science editor for TheBodyPro, a freelance journalist for The Lancet HIV, and a medical writer helping researchers prepare articles for peer-reviewed journals. He began working on HIV at Gay Men Fighting AIDS in the mid-1990s.

Basic information

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TB and HIV

TB and HIV

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