“…According to the literature, as well as data found in this study, infectious diseases are among the leading causes of hospitalization and death of HIV-infected patients, with a predominance of bacterial and fungal infections, pulmonary dysfunction, and central nervous system disease, such as toxoplasmosis, cerebral cryptococcosis, and others 7,12 . Tuberculosis is one of the most important AIDS-associated co-infections because it is a fully transmitted disease until treatment is started, and is often the fi rst manifestation of immunodefi ciency caused by HIV.…”