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Health-related quality of life of HIV patients with and without tuberculosis registered in a Tertiary Hospital in Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Introduction:Little is known about health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients who suffer from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria.This study was carried out to measure and compare the HRQOL of HIV patients with and without TB at the HIV Clinic of University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Material and methods:A comparative cross-sectional study design and simple random sampling was used to recruit 144 HIV patients with TB and 144 HIV patients without TB.Information were collected on socio-demographic and socioeconomic variables, w…
