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    Prevalence of tuberculosis among patients attending HIV clinic at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Jinja District
    (Kampala International University, School of Health Sciences, 2018-10) Kilenzi, Eddy
    Tuberculosis (TB) was declared a global emergency in the year 1993; the Director General of WHO declared AIDS to be a global emergency as well and there exists a synergistic relationship between TB and HIV. Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are fatally synergistic. In high-burden countries, people with HIV/AIDS are 27 times more likely to contract TB than those not suffering from HIV/AIDS. Globally, one-third of the more than 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS are also infected with tuberculosis. TB is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among HIV/AIDS patients accounting for about 30% of all death of HIV/AIDS patients (Sharma et al, 2010). The study employed a descriptive cross-sectional design where qualitative methods were used to collect data from the study population which consisted of patients (15-65 years) attending ART clinic at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital. The sample size of 215 participants was calculated from the Kish Leslie, 1965 formula and a systematic sampling method was used to get the participants. The prevalence of TB among sero-positive HIV patients was 20.5 %, while 79.9% of the 215 participants had only HIV without TB while 44 (20.5%) of the participants were co infected with TB. Of the patients who had TB (215 participants), 165 (76.7%) were male and 50 (23.3%) were female. Most of the participants were within 26-35 (39.5%) and 7.0% within 56-65. Out of the 215 participants, 69.8% had never gone to school while a small 2.3% had reached tertiary level. The prevalence of HIV/TB co infection was slightly lower than that from the previous research which was at 24%, being more in male than females with a ratio of approximately 3:1 most of them falling within 26-35 age group since this was the sexually active group. In addition, many of the participants had never gone to school 69.8% (150 participants) hence high chances of having a poor health seeking behavior and inadequate health education