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more detailed recommendations regarding co-treatment of tuberculosis and HIV among children
and pregnant women
We include pharmacokinetic data as well as data about immunologic response and virologic
suppression (where available) for antiretroviral drugs that are licensed and available for use in the
United States when administered in combination with antituberculosis drugs.
A literature search was conducted to extract articles that met the following inclusion criteria: clinical
studies involving healthy volunteers or patients with HIV or HIV/TB co-infection with relevant PK, safety,
or HIV (viral load suppression, change in CD4 count) endpoints. Our search strategy was as follows: (1)
between March 2011 and May 2012 we searched in Pubmed and Embase for English and French articles
published from 1990 to 2012. We used as MeSH terms tuberculosis, HIV, and the names of the
drugs being evaluated. (2) After articles were extracted and selected, we hand-searched references at
the end of include