This case report describes an HIV-positive patient with recurrent tuberculosis in Uganda. After several failed courses\r\nof treatment, the patient was diagnosed with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). As adequate in-patient\r\nfacilities were unavailable, we advised the patient to remain at home, and he received treatment at home via his\r\nfamily and a community nurse. The patient had a successful clearance of tuberculosis. This strategy of home-based\r\ncare represents an important opportunity for treatment of patients in East Africa, where human resource\r\nconstraints and inadequate hospital facilities exist for complex patients at high risk of infection to others.
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