Tuberculosis control and HIV in Europe: good or bad news?

Symposium
Chairs: G. B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy), C. Lange (Borstel, Germany)
Aims: This symposium will update delegates on:
• the new vision of the WHO-recommended strategy of tuberculosis control;
• the evidence that smoking affects, in different ways, the tuberculosis epidemic;
• new approaches to control HIV and implement tuberculosis/HIV collaborating activities;
• the latest information on epidemiology, clinical aspects, mechanisms of disease, therapy and diagnosis of tuberculosis in HIV infection.

The WHO-recommended strategy of tuberculosis control: the new vision of DOTS M. Uplekar (Geneva, Switzerland)
How does tobacco-smoking contribute to the tuberculosis burden? K. Slama (Paris, France)
Immunological response in HIV-associated tuberculosis and the implications of HIV in the search for a tuberculosis vaccine D. Goletti (Rome, Italy)