Derrick Kimuli

Prevalence and factors associated with HIV among children with tuberculosis in ten high-burden regions of Tanzania, 2018–2023: a retrospective analysis of national surveillance data

Abstract Background Children living with HIV who develop tuberculosis (TB) have higher case fatality and lower treatment success than their HIV-negative peers. Tanzania’s routine surveillance reports pediatric TB-HIV co-infection descriptively, without formal trend testing or mod...

Understanding patient-reported reasons for tuberculosis treatment interruption in Central Uganda: a qualitative study

Despite being a curable disease, tuberculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem in low-resource settings, including Uganda, which is among the World Health Organization’s high TB/HIV burden countries. Suboptimal treatment success rates persist, largely driven by treatmen...