About TB and HIV
Tuberculosis has a disproportionate impact on women and girls living with HIV.
What can we do?
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Tuberculosis has a disproportionate impact on women and girls living with HIV.
Here are a few tips to help protect yourself and here are some links for more detailed advice:
Early diagnosis means early treatment and better outcomes. It also means that you should take ART as soon as possible if you are living with HIV. Common symptoms of TB are a cough for more than two weeks (sometimes with blood), weight loss, night sweats and fever. If you have signs and symptoms of TB or have been exposed to someone who is sick with TB, seek information and support from health care workers about treatment and prevention.
As women living with HIV, we can make a point today to talk to our sisters and family members about TB and teach our family members about the signs and symptoms of TB.
Reach out to your local leadership and ministries of health and advocate! Ask them to:
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Established in 1992 by women living with HIV in response to the consistent silencing and marginalizing of the concerns of women living with HIV.
Today, over 20 years later, ICW continues to be the only network run by and for women living with HIV. We work in 120 countries, through 10 regional networks.