Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Unit of Epidemiology & Biostastics, School of Public Health, College of Health science, Woldia University, Ethiopia

Publications

• Research   
  HIV/AIDS Associated Tuberculosis Occurance on Art Initiated Children In North West Ethiopia 2020
  Author(s): Fassikaw Kebede*, Tsehay Kebede, Birhanu Kebede, Belete Negese and Ayinalem Kebede
  
  Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains the first cause of death from infectious disease worldwide despite available effective therapies. In 2016, there were an estimated 10.4 million new cases of TB,490 000 new cases with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), and 1.7 million cases died from TB. The aim of this study is to assess HIV/AIDS associated tuberculosis for ART started children in north west Ethiopia 2020 Methods: Hospital based retrospective cohort study was conducted among 421 adult population with HIV/AIDS from to 2009-2018. The Time to develop TB was defined as the time from enrollment for ART care until the development of TB amon on ART. Variables with a P-value <0.25 at bivariate Cox regression analysis, were entered into the multivariable Cox model. Multivariable-Cox-regression model with 95%CI and AHR was used .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2161-105X.2021.11.550

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