Tuberculosis preventive treatment uptake among people living with HIV during COVID-19 period in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a retrospective data review.

Although a decreasing trend was observed in the number of cases discontinued TPT in the period July to September 2021 compared to in July to September 2020 (lockdown period), however, it continuously increased in October to December 2021 and in January to March 2022 compared to the same quarters number in the previous year during the COVID-19 period.

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In trend assessment, the number of PLHIV who were not started on TPT continuously declined across quarters in April to June 2021, in July to September 2021, and in October to December 2021 compared to the same quarters number in the first year during the pandemic period and this was found to be an encouraging trend; however, in the last quarter of the study period (January to March 2022) increment was observed.

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