摘要
the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of hiv infection among individuals %26gt; 15 years of age with a confirmed diagnosis of tuberculosis and treated at family health care clinics in the city of fortaleza, brazil. we evaluated a random sample of 110 patients with tuberculosis, treated at a total of 26 family health care clinics between january and may of 2009. all of the participants completed a questionnaire regarding sociodemographic and clinical data, and all underwent hiv testing. in this sample, the prevalence of tuberculosis/hiv co-infection was 3.6% (95% ci: 0.2-7.0).