Anti-TB drugs "can reduce HIV death"

South Africa, a tuberculosis expert recently called on all anti-retroviral drugs are not infected with the AIDS virus to children taking the cheap and easy access to drugs to prevent TB. TB is spread widely in developing countries of an infectious disease, which exists in two forms: latent and morbidity. HIV-infected people particularly vulnerable to TB incidence. However, an antibiotic called isoniazid can prevent those infected with HIV but did not take antiretroviral drugs in patients with the incidence of TB. WHO currently proposed, the children infected with HIV if there is the opportunity to contact the families of TB, then they should be taking isoniazid. However, recent research suggests that children infected with AIDS regardless of family status, isoniazid can for these children of AIDS-related diseases by half the number of deaths. University of Cape Town, South Africa paediatricians HeatherZar and his colleagues so that 263 children infected with HIV by taking isoniazid - a day, or three times a week. Zar said that their research team observed that the number of deaths dropped by 50 percent, the number of children suffering from tuberculosis dropped by 70 percent. Their findings published in the November 3 "published by the British Medical Journal". Zar told the website said: "I think this is a very important discovery. We found that this therapy significantly reduced mortality and the incidence of tuberculosis - people have never had to be used in this way isoniazid." She The study said there are great public health potential, it could prove to be strong to those living in endemic areas of tuberculosis and antiretroviral drugs are not infected with the AIDS children taking isoniazid. Zar said that they study the majority of children do not receive AIDS treatment. She explained that the group is still waiting for a study on the use of antiretroviral drugs children the results of the experiment. Earlier this year, U.S. scientists warned that because of the widespread use of isoniazid likely to accelerate the emergence of resistant TB rate, it may in the future failure (see scientists on TB and AIDS patients with medication warning) But Zar said that so far has only infected with tuberculosis, and the wrong patients taking isoniazid was found TB drug resistance, rather than being the treatment of TB patients. She said: "In any children or adults to receive preventive treatment, TB testing and rule out the possibility is very important. Tuberculosis treatment needs of 3,4 drugs." Developing countries, especially African regional TB began on the rise, partly because of the AIDS epidemic. In Uganda, 2003 to 2004 the number of TB patients rose 150 percent, 20 percent of TB patients also infected with the AIDS virus.