• Checking the ways for Prevention of tuberculosis in HIV patients
  • Paniz Behrooz,1,* Samiye Gholamani,2
    1. Farzanegan high-school, the ministry of education
    2. Nejabat Shahed School, the ministry of education


  • Introduction: These days, Many people in The World are living With HIV. Given that they have Immunodefiency, and also there are some limitations about B.C.G vaccine injection for HIV patients, They are in danger of catch the tuberculosis more than others. also, HIV helps to faster progression of tuberculosis. therefore, scientists are trying to find ways to prevention of Tuberculosis in HIV patients and save their life.
  • Methods: At this article, other projects had been analyzed and with finding the connection between them some ways to prevention tuberculosis are written. We used articles with DOIs like "10.1080/17476348.2019.1569518" and "10.1038/nrmicro.2017.128" with the titles "Advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis in children" and "Pathogenesis of HIV-1 and Mycobacterium tuberculosis co-infection"
  • Results: 3. Results 3_1. Prevention of tuberculosis As we know, the tuberculosis(TB) and HIV pathogenesis are similar in some ways. Generally, some of the ways to prevention of tuberculosis are not eating junk and unhealthy food, diagnosis, check-up and not smoking. 3_2. HIV and tuberculosis As it was said, one of the most famous factors for tuberculosis is HIV; having HIV and its pathogenesis inside the blood help TB. There are some factors that can effect on body. If HIV infect someone, the possibility of getting tuberculosis will increase. 3_3. precis At least, prevention of HIV and cure will help the person to not get tuberculosis. There are too many measures to prevention these two illnesses; for example eating healthy, exercising, doing some check-ups.
  • Conclusion: contracting tuberculosis is more dangerous for HIV patients Than normal people. creating healthy lifestyle for HIV patients and also diagnosis and cure HIV are effective in prevention of TB. in the future, we can research about this topic's details. for example about more effective exercises. At least, we can say that the actions that are done because of HIV, can effect on TB, too. So it's important that what is the person, who has tuberculosis, eating and doing.
  • Keywords: tuberculosis; HIV; prevention; B.C.G vaccine;