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A clinic service offering isoniazid preventive therapy to HIV infected adults reduces the incidence of tuberculosis
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  1. A R Khan
  1. SHO in Respiratory Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK; emonarkhan@doctors.org.uk

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    ▴ Grant AD, Charalambous S, Fielding KL, et al. Effect of routine isoniazid preventive therapy on tuberculosis incidence among HIV-infected men in South Africa: a novel randomized incremental recruitment study. JAMA2005;293:2719–25
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    This study followed 1655 HIV infected male employees of a South African gold mining company (median age 37 years) for a median duration of 22.1 months. Isoniazid preventive therapy, 300 mg daily, was offered at clinic enrolment to 679 subjects who attended with no evidence of active tuberculosis (TB).

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