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Table 2 Probabilities of outcomes with different TB and HIV health states

From: Impact of DOTS expansion on tuberculosis related outcomes and costs in Haiti

PATHOGENETIC FACTOR

BASE

RANGE

REFERENCE

Reactivation from latent TB infection

   

   Present more than 2 years ("long-standing LTBI")*

   

HIV uninfected

0.1%/year

0.1% – 0.2%/year

[28;29]

HIV infected – asymptomatic

3.4%/year

3.4% – 8.7%

[36;64;65]

HIV infected – AIDS

33%/year

33% – 67%

[36]

   Within 2 years of new TB infection ("recent LTBI")

   

HIV uninfected

5%

2% – 15%

[24;66]

HIV infected – asymptomatic

33%

33% – 100%

Extrapolated

HIV infected – AIDS

100%

50% – 100%

[42;43;67–69]

   Within 2 years following re-infection

   

HIV Uninfected

1%

 

[27;70]*

HIV infected

33% or 100%

 

Assumption

Outcomes of untreated smear positive TB

   

   Mortality – 1 year, & 2 years

33%, & 50%

 

From [71]

   Spontaneous remission

25%

 

[72]

   Relapse after spontaneous remission

2.5%/year

1.3% – 2.5%/year

[72;73]

Outcomes of treated smear positive TB

   

   Relapse after cure (total over next 2 years)

3.0%

1.5% – 5%

[74–78]

   Cure rate if default (SDR or drug sensitive) **

62.4%

 

[31–34]

   Effect of drug sensitivity or treatment outcomes

   

Relative risk of failure/if single drug resistant

2.0

 

[79]

Relative risk of failure/if multi-drug resistant

10.5

 

[79]

Relative risk of death/if single drug resistant

1.0

 

[79]

Relative risk of death/if multi-drug resistant

4.5

 

[79]

   If MDR – Probability of cure with treatment

48%

48%-73%

[22;80]

- Probability of death with treatment

12%

12%-26%

[22;80]

HIV Infected and TB

   

   Average duration of HIV infection – Total

9.8 years

7.3–9.8

[35;81]

   - Time spent in HIV asymptomatic state

9.0 years

 

[35]

   Annual risk of progression of asymptomatic HIV to AIDS

7%

7%-9%

[35;81]

   Annual risk of death from HIV: HIV asymptomatic state

4.6%

 

[35]

   Annual risk of death from HIV: AIDS

22%

 

[35]

   Effect of prior active TB on relative risk of death from HIV

2.2

(2.2 – 4.0)

[3;40;41]

   Effect of HIV infection on relative risk of death during TB treatment (drug sensitive or single drug resistance)

2.25

 

[37–39;82]

   Relapse after successful TB treatment (cured)

3.1%

3.1% – 6.4%

[83–85]

  1. * Assume that rate of reactivation more than two years after TB infection is the same whether it is after a first infection, or after re-infection.
  2. ** Transfer out considered equivalent to default [30]. Overall cure rate if default based on timing of default (from [31]), and cure rates from trials of very short course treatment [32–34].