40-year-old male presents with fever and abdominal pain and diagnosed with HIV and TB. How will you give treatment?
If a patient is diagnosed with HIV & TB, treatment for TB should be given first, to decrease bacterial load in the body & decrease chances of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. Then, treatment of HIV should be given.
ATT and AIDS treatment simultaneously
First ATT and then A
ATT only
First A and then ATT
FMGE 2019