Paris, February 27th, 2006

Bernd Sebastian Kamps is editor of medical textbooks about HIV Medicine and Influenza. The next topic on his priority list is tuberculosis (TB). Each year about 2 million people die from this curable disease. There are several important associations between HIV and TB:

• TB disease progression is faster in HIV-infected people

• TB in HIV positive people is more likely to be fatal if undiagnosed and left untreated

• TB is the only major AIDS-related opportunistic infection that poses a health threat to HIV-negative individuals.

• TB is harder to diagnose in HIV-infected individuals.

In Free Medical Information, Bernd Sebastian Kamps has described the principles of physicians-published medical textbooks.

Bernd Sebastian Kamps will continue to allocate part of his resources to open access medical textbooks.