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Volume 14, Number 5—May 2008
Perspective

Scale-up of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Laboratory Services, Peru

Sonya S. Shin*Comments to Author , Martin Yagui†, Luis Ascencios†, Gloria Yale‡, Carmen Suarez‡, Neyda Quispe†, Cesar Bonilla‡, Joaquin Blaya§, Allison Taylor¶, Carmen Contreras#, and Peter Cegielski¶
Author affiliations: *Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; †Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru; ‡Programa de Control de Tuberculosis, Lima, Peru; §Partners in Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ¶Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; #Socios en Salud, Lima, Peru;

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Table 1

HIV and tuberculosis (TB), Peru, 2005*

Characteristic Value
Total population 28,300,000
Population in Lima 7,300,000
Average life expectancy, y 69
Infant mortality rate 31/100,000 live births
GDP per capita $2,500
Population living in poverty 54%
National HIV prevalence 0.6%
Estimated no. HIV positive 60,000–80,000
No. receiving HIV therapy 9,157
TB incidence 108/100,000
MDR TB in new patients 3%
MDR TB in previously treated patients 12.3%
TB in HIV patients ≈30%
HIV in TB patients ≈3%
MDR TB in co-infected patients 30%–47%
Mortality rate among co-infected patients† <38%
Mortality rate among MDR TB–HIV patients <57%

*GDP, gross domestic product; MDR TB, multidrug-resistant TB.
†Co-infected with HIV and TB but not necessarily MDR-TB.

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