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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Arch Pharm Pract</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">archivepp.com</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Arch Pharm Pract</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Archives of Pharmacy Practice</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2320-5210</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">archivepp.com-1232</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.51847/NzhHwpLOLr</article-id>
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          <subject>Original research</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Drivers of Multi-Drug Resistance to Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs in TB/HIV Co-Infection in Tuberculosis Patients</article-title>
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                    <contrib-group>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Mupepe</surname>
                <given-names>Yende</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Kolnziam</surname>
                <given-names>Nsutier</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Pambi</surname>
                <given-names>Izana</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Katata</surname>
                <given-names>Manyama</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Masolo</surname>
                <given-names>Tene</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Makola</surname>
                <given-names>Kiala</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Nkunda</surname>
                <given-names>Tukija</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff2" ref-type="aff">2</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Mutshil</surname>
                <given-names>Ikumunir</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff3" ref-type="aff">3</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Claudine</surname>
                <given-names>Tshiama</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff1" ref-type="aff">1</xref>
                                        </contrib>
                      <contrib contrib-type="author">
              <name>
                <surname>Bongo</surname>
                <given-names>Gédéon</given-names>
              </name>
                              <xref rid="aff4" ref-type="aff">4</xref>
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                  <aff id="aff1">
            <label>1</label>Nursing Education and Administration, Section of Nursing Sciences, Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
          </aff>
                  <aff id="aff2">
            <label>2</label>Centre Hospitalier Mont-Amba, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
          </aff>
                  <aff id="aff3">
            <label>3</label>Nursing Education and Administration, Section of Nursing Sciences, Kwilu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
          </aff>
                  <aff id="aff4">
            <label>4</label>Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
          </aff>
                          <author-notes>
            <corresp id="cor1">
              <bold>Address for correspondence:</bold> Prof. Wael Abu Dayyih, Department of
              Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mutah University, Al-Karak 61710, Jordan.
                              E-mail: <email xlink:href="gedeonbongo@gmail.com">gedeonbongo@gmail.com</email>
                          </corresp>
          </author-notes>
                    <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>10</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>16</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>19</fpage>
      <lpage>25</lpage>
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        <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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      <abstract>
        <title>A<sc>BSTRACT</sc></title>
        <p>TB/HIV co-infection is a very heavy burden, and controlling or even eliminating it is a challenge for African countries and their health services. The leading cause of mortality for those with TB/HIV co-infection is still resistance to anti-tuberculosis medications, and the factors leading to it are little known because they are less documented. The main aim of this research was to determine the drivers of multi-drug resistance to anti-tuberculosis drugs in TB/HIV co-infection in tuberculosis patients in a hospital in Kinshasa. A descriptive cross-sectional study analyzed 25 records of patients with TB/HIV co-infection undergoing antiretroviral and anti-tuberculosis treatment at the Saint-Pierre de Kabambarré Hospital in Kinshasa. The mentioned files were analyzed over a period running from October 2023 to January 2024. A descriptive analysis revealed that environmental variables, including alcohol intake, had contributed to 46.6% of patients&amp;#39; development of resistance to anti-tuberculosis medications, loss of sight due to relocation, compared with 40% as a result of economic factors, in particular poverty and geographical inaccessibility. Only 32% of resistance was linked to medical factors: stock-outs of anti-tuberculosis drugs, and 41% of respondents developed resistance as a result of biological factors. On the other hand, only 12% of patients developed resistant relapses due to socio-demographic factors, such as discrimination and the myth surrounding tuberculosis. Poverty combined with the global economic collapse, geographical inaccessibility, stock-outs of anti-tuberculosis drugs and antiretrovirals, increased viral load, discrimination and the myth surrounding tuberculosis are responsible for anti-tuberculosis drug resistance in patients with HIV/TB co-infection. </p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
                <kwd>Recurrence</kwd>
                <kwd>Tuberculosis</kwd>
                <kwd>HIV</kwd>
                <kwd>Multidrug resistance</kwd>
                <kwd>Anti-tuberculosis drugs</kwd>
                <kwd>Co-infection</kwd>
              </kwd-group>
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