Psychological and social features of patients with tuberculosis and HIV infection in modern conditions

Abstract

Despite the measures taken by WHO to combat tuberculosis, the level of morbidity and mortality from it throughout the world still remains quite high. The effectiveness of treatment also does not reach the target indicators, which forces TB specialists to wonder about the reasons for the ineffectiveness of the treatment and ways to solve them. The medical and social characteristics of patients and their personal characteristics certainly influence the therapy and adherence to it, and subsequently its effective[1]ness and the outcome of the disease. At present, a holistic psychosocial portrait of a patient with tuberculosis, including those combined with HIV infection, has not yet been developed. Knowledge of the psychological and social characteristics of tuberculosis patients will allow us to identify their personal characteristics and existing problems, which will further allow them to carry out psychological adaptation of the therapy at all stages of treatment.