Tuberculosis and HIV responses threatened by COVID-19
Paul Adepoju
Published:April 08, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(20)30109-0
As the first cases of COVID-19 affect Nigeria's health-care workers, will the country's HIV and tuberculosis responses weather the pandemic? Paul Adepoju reports.
March 24, 2020, was World Tuberculosis Day 2020, but this year tuberculosis was overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of that week, COVID-19 had already exceeded 600?000 confirmed cases and about 30?000 deaths worldwide. Before the emergence of COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern, coinfection with tuberculosis was probably the priority for HIV/AIDS control efforts in Africa.