Association of sputum smear conversion after 2 months of intensive treatment phase with baseline characteristics in 220 smear-positive PTB patients, who had a sputum sample taken between 7 and 9 weeks after start of treatment, Rwanda 2007.

†Multivariate analysis was based on n = 218.*Farming, housewives, unemployed, labourer, vendor.#On ART/Co-trimoxazole: already on these treatments at the time of start of TB treatment. Not ART/Co-trimoxazole: started with these treatments after start of TB treatment or did not start at all before end of treatment.OR - Odds Ratios; CI - Confidence Interval, PTB Pulmonary TB, ART aniretroviral treatment.