Factors associated with mortality in persons co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV in Suriname: a retrospective cohort study

• Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
• Main Authors: Deborah Stijnberg, Eric Commiesie, Diana Marín, Ward Schrooten, Freddy Perez, Mauro Sanchez
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2019
• Subjects: tuberculosis; hiv; mortality; national health programs; suriname; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Meier
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2019.103; https://doaj.org/article/9cacba9a1e0d46ba893fd168315a10f1

Objective. To identify socio-demographic and clinical factors associated with mortality among persons with tuberculosis (TB) and TB/HIV co-infection in Suriname. Methods. This was a retrospective cohort study using data from the national TB and HIV databases for 2010 – 2015. The survival probability...