Tuberculosis-HIV co-infection in Kiev City, Ukraine

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 766-768

  Van Der Werf, Marieke J ^a   Yegorova, Olga B ^b   Chentsova, Nelly ^c   Chechulin, Yuriy ^d   Hasker, Epco ^a,d   Petrenko, Vasyl I ^e   Veen, Jaap ^a   Turchenko, Leonid V ^b  

^a KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b Kiev City TB Department   (Ukraine)

^c Kiev Centre for AIDS   (Ukraine)

^d Project Tuberculosis Prevention and Control in Kiev City Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^e BOGOMOLETS NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; TUBERCULOSIS; UKRAINE;

EID: 33646579143     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1205.051103     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Hamers FF. HIV infection in Ukraine (1987-96). Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique. 2000;48(Suppl 1):1S3-15.
2. Hamers FF, Downs AM. HIV in central and eastern Europe. Lancet. 2003;361:1035-44.
3. Balakireva O, Galustian Y, Yaremenko O, Scherbyns'ka A, Kruglov Y, Levchuk N, et al. The social and economic impact of HIV and AIDS in Ukraine: a re-study. Kyiv City; Ukraine: British Council; 2001.
4. Corbett EL, Watt CJ, Walker N, Maher D, Williams BG, Raviglione MC, et al. The growing burden of tuberculosis: global trends and interactions with the HIV epidemic. Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:1009-21.
5. van der Werf MJ, Yegorova OB, Chechulin Y, Hasker E, Veen J, Turchenko LV. HIV testing practices of TB patients after introduction of a new testing policy in Kiev City, Ukraine. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2005,9:733-9.
6. Mavrov GI, Bondarenko GM. The evolution of sexually transmitted infections in the Ukraine. Sex Transm Infect. 2002;78:219-21.
7. Hull HF, Bettinger CJ, Gallaher MM, Keller NM, Wilson J, Mertz GJ. Comparison of HIV-antibody prevalence in patients consenting to and declining HIV-antibody testing in an STD clinic. JAMA. 1988;260:935-8.
8. Jones JL, Hutto P, Meyer P, Dowda H, Gamble WB Jr, Gunn RA. HIV seroprevalence and reasons for refusing and accepting HIV testing. Sex Transm Dis. 1993;20:334-7.
9. Groseclose SL, Erickson B, Quinn TC, Glasser D, Campbell CH, Hook EW 3rd. Characterization of patients accepting and refusing routine, voluntary HIV antibody testing in public sexually transmitted disease clinics. Sex Transm Dis. 1994;21:31-5.
10. Postema EJ, Willems PW, de Ridder MA, van der Meijden WI. Comparison of patients refusing with patients accepting unlinked anonymous HIV testing in an outpatient STD department in The Netherlands. Int J STD AIDS. 1997;8:368-72.
11. Paget WJ, Zwahlen M, Eichmann AR. Voluntary confidential HIV testing of STD patients in Switzerland, 1990-5: HIV test refusers cause different biases on HIV prevalences in heterosexuals and homo/bisexuals. Swiss Network of Dermatovenereology Policlinics. Genitourin Med. 1997;73:444-7.
12. Abouya L, Coulibaly IM, Wiktor SZ, Coulibaly D, N'Krogbo M, N'Gbo A, et al. The Côte d'Ivoire national HIV counseling and testing program for tuberculosis patients: implementation and analysis of epidemiologic data. AIDS. 1998;12:505-12.