In 2016, 1.3 million people died from tuberculosis (TB) and 1 million people died from HIV. Of the 10.4 million people that develop TB each year, one out of ten is HIV positive . HIV is one of the most important challenges to TB control globally . By severely affecting the immune system, HIV facilitates TB dissemination and increases mortality of coinfected persons as compared to TB patients who are HIV negative [2, 3]. Active TB is an AIDS-defining disease and a criterion to start antiretroviral therapy (ART); therefore, diagnosis of both diseases is important in co-infected patients [4–8].