Tuberculosis and HIV: time for an intensified response

This article describes several urgent actions that are needed to promote rapid scale-up of effective and integrated services for tuberculosis and HIV and to tackle the factors that increase vulnerability and put people at risk of HIV-related tuberculosis. These include: bold national leadership health system restructuring to foster greater integration of tuberculosis and HIV services that provide routine tuberculosis screening treatment and prevention to people living with HIV; and to offer HIV counseling and testing to all patients with signs and symptoms of tuberculosis decentralized care to ensure improved access investment in new tools and better use of existing tools and global leadership from donors countries of the global south and key health agencies.