According to World Health
Organization TB treatment outcome definitions, TB control
programs routinely count any death during TB treatment as
“TB treatment outcome death”.18 In fact, the definitive causes
of such deaths, in the presence of concomitant HIV infection,
are not totally confined to TB and thus warrant further
investigation. Therefore, we conducted this study with the
aim of investigating the definitive causes of death in patients
coinfected with TB-HIV, and describing those causes of death