[Tuberculosis -HIV, a common and sensitive care in connection with a case of pleural tuberculosis revealing AIDS].

Tuberculosis is the most common disease inaugural of AIDS in France and HIV serology should be offered routinely when a tuberculosis case is diagnosed. Similarly, tuberculosis should also be sought before starting antiretroviral treatment. The case of pleural tuberculosis revealing AIDS presented here illustrates the difficulties of management of this co-infection due to polychemotherapy used to treat each of these pathologies causing drug interactions requiring dose adjustments and changes in treatment protocol and an increase in side effects.