High tuberculosis burden among people living with HIV in southern Mozambique

Tuberculosis (TB) remains an important public health concern, and a leading cause of disease and death worldwide. Mozambique is one of the few high TB burden countries where TB figures have not improved in recent years, with an estimated TB incidence in 2013 of 552 cases per 100 000 population [1]. With 58% of all notified TB cases being HIV-positive, Mozambique also has one of the highest TB/HIV co-infection rates. Published data on the burden of TB or HIV disease in the country are scarce, and improving epidemiological surveillance has been identified as an urgent step to improve TB control [2]. High TB burden, in terms of incident cases and case fatality, in PLHIV in a rural district in Mozambique <http://ow.ly/DdlZn> We thank Sergi Sanz, Elisa de Lazzari (both ISGlobal, CRESIB, Hospital Clínic – Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain), Alberto Bila Junior and Elisa Fernández Cooke (both CISM, Maputo, Mozambique) for their support with the statistical analysis, data management and comments on the manuscript.