A technical meeting was hosted by the South African Medical Research Council and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization at Cape Town in July 2008 to review evidence about a potential causal impact of alcohol consumption on Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and tuberculosis (TB). After reviewing the evidence from epidemiology, social sciences and immunology, the meeting concluded that there was sufficient evidence for a causal impact of alcohol on TB incidence and on worsening the disease [32].
