The article “Tuberculosis and/or HIV infection and associated socio-behavioural factors among migrants in Portugal: a community-based descriptive cross-sectional study”, reporting the results of the project “Characterization of drug-resistant TB and HIV, and associated socio-behavioural factors among migrants in Lisbon, Portugal”, funded by GHTM, was published in the Portuguese Journal of Public Health.
According to the article, the study, which aimed to describe the distribution of TB, HIV and TB/HIV co-infection in migrants as well as some of the associated factors, revealed that being unemployed, having low income or low education, using illicit drugs or being a regular smoker were characteristics of the migrants studied where a prevalence of 1% of HIV-TB co-infection and 17% of HIV was detected. The aggregation of these characteristics in the study population refers to the social and economic disadvantage often pointed out as increasing the risk of HIV and TB infection.
Read the details of this study here.