Table 1. Data underlying the estimation of the HIV-prevalence in culture-positive TB patients in Germany, 2002 to 2009^§.

	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Overall
no. cult+ TB notifications	4,965	4,714	4,372	4,116	3,773	3,475	3,163	3,150	31,728
no. patients in ClinSurv HIV	7,333	7,766	8,277	8,657	8,902	9,264	9,596	9,840	15,531
no. patients in ClinSurv HIV under ART	5,920	6,343	6,806	7,097	7,359	7,776	8,155	8,523	n.a.
Proportion of patients in ClinSurv under ART (%)	81	82	82	82	83	84	85	87	n.a.
no. ART prescriptions	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	11,553,109	11,254,315	11,802,210	12,352,169	n.a.
no. patients from ART prescriptions	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	35,185	36,437	38,730	42,438	n.a.
Coefficient	4.80*	4.80*	4.80*	4.80*	4.78	4.69	4.75	4.98	4.80
no. HIV/TB cases [95%CI]	44 [32–59]	42 [30–57]	41 [29–56]	56 [42–73]	32 [22–45]	26 [17]–[38]	32 [22–45]	25 [16]–[37]	298 [n.a.]
no. HIV/TB cases (extrapolated)	212[154–284]	202 [146–273]	198 [142–268]	270 [204–350]	153 [105–216]	122 [80–179]	153 [105–216]	126 [81–185]	1,430 [n.a.]
estimated HIV-prevalence in cult+ TB (% [95%CI])	4.3 [3.1–5.7]	4.3 [3.1–5.8]	4.5 [3.2–6.1]	6.6 [5.0–8.5]	4.1 [2.8–5.7]	3.5 [2.3–5.1]	4.8 [3.3–6.8]	4.0 [2.6–5.9]	4.5 [n.a.]

^§data sources include national tuberculosis notification data, the ClinSurv HIV cohort, and ART prescription data by Insight Health; *average of the 2006 to 2009 coefficients; no. = number; n.d. = no data; n.a. = not applicable.