Abstract
The association of tuberculosis (TB) with HIV infection is well established with TB being one of the common manifestations of AIDS. The proportion of TB cases with HIV infection has been rising and the global prevalence of TB/HIV coinfection among adults aged 15–49 years is 0.36%. India has the largest number of co-infected individuals. Bangladesh ranks fifth among the countries with the highest burden of TB but fortunately HIV prevalence in Bangladesh is still low. However recent data from surveillance show that Bangladesh is at the brink of a concentrated epidemic in injecting drug users. The country has 363 people with HIV/AIDS (PHA) identified through passive case reporting as announced by the National AIDS/STD Programme of the Government of Bangladesh on 1 December 2003. Of 67 PHA who visited the Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) Unit of ICDDRB between April 2003 and June 2004 47 had opportunistic infections of whom six had TB (M M Parvez ICDDRB personal communication). (excerpt)
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