Such policies at patient level are to be embedded in a strategy of close co‑ operation and co‑ordination of surveillance, planning, fnancing and monitoring of combined HIV and TB programmes at international, national, regional and institutional levels. National TB programmes and national HIV/Aids programmes should be closely linked; and prisons, where both diseases of dual epidemic have a much higher prevalence than in the community, must be included in national programmes and initiatives on HIV/Aids and TB.11 11. Ibid. The dual epidemic: HIV/Aids and tuberculosis (TB) Page 67