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VOLUME 58 , ISSUE 1 ( January-March, 2016 ) > List of Articles

Original Article

HIV-TB Cross-referral and Collaborative Strategy: 8 Years of Our Experience from An Urban Health Centre in North India

Bhanu Mehra, Monika Matlani, Deepti Rawat, Hitender Gautam, Preena Bhalla

Keywords : Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Tuberculosis (TB), Cross-referral, India, Integrated counselling and testing centre (ICTC)

Citation Information : Mehra B, Matlani M, Rawat D, Gautam H, Bhalla P. HIV-TB Cross-referral and Collaborative Strategy: 8 Years of Our Experience from An Urban Health Centre in North India. Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci 2016; 58 (1):11-16.

DOI: 10.5005/ijcdas-58-1-11

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

Published Online: 17-11-2022

Copyright Statement:  Copyright © 2016; The Author(s).


Abstract

Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) epidemics continue to fuel each other and with dual infections with these two deadly diseases on the rise, it becomes imperative to devise effective HIV-TB collaborative strategies. The present study was designed to evaluate the existing HIV-TB cross-referral mechanism at an urban health centre; to determine HIV sero-prevalence among pulmonary TB patients referred from chest clinic to the integrated counselling and testing centre (ICTC); and to evaluate the TB suspects referred from ICTC to the chest clinic for a possible TB aetiology. Methods: The present study was a retrospective analysis of HIV-TB cross-referrals whereby a line list of all the patients referred under this strategy from January 2006 to December 2013 was retrieved and analysed. Results: A total of 3726 TB cases were referred to the ICTC and 641 TB suspects were identified by ICTC counsellors and referred to the chest clinic during this period. HIV sero-prevalence among TB patients was 2.8% (106 of 3726) and TB prevalence among HIV sero-positive and sero-negative TB suspects was 9.3% (10/108) and 4.3% (9/211), respectively (p=0.07). HIV prevalence was found to be significantly higher among male (n=2024) than among female (n=1702) TB patients (4.4% versus 0.9%; p<0.0001). Only 319 of 641 (49.8%) ICTC patients referred to the chest clinic reached there. Conclusion: Our study highlights the strong need to scale up the integration and partnership between HIV and TB programmes for better and integrated diagnosis and care of HIV-TB co-infected patients.

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