Abstract :
Tuberculosis in India is an uncontrolled epidemic across all sections of society, despite efforts from government of India, World Health Organisation and various state bodies and our country share largest number of multidrug resistant tuberculosis. Little is known about clinical presentation and outcome of HIV/TB co-infection in children on anti-retroviral therapy. TB detection centre across the country laid emphasis on smear positivity but in HIV infected children, extrapulmonary TB is more common than Pulmonary TB. Moreover, sputum expectoration is not possible satisfactorily below 8 years of age.
Keyword :
ART: Anti retroviral therapy, HIV: Human Immunodeficiancy virus, TB: Tuberculosis.