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Kate Shearer, Bareng A S Nonyane, Christiaan Mulder, Emmanuel Kaonga, Rose Nyirenda, et al.
… HIV (PWH). We evaluated the effectiveness of a behavioural economics-based choice architecture approach to increase facility-level TPT prescribing to PWH in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. **METHODS:** We conducted a cluster-randomised trial within the IMPAACT4TB 3HP rollout, …
Sathirakorn Pongpanich, Prof, Wandee Sirichokchatchawan, Ph.D, Bumi Herman, MD
…or detecting rifampicin-resistant) is now being utilized in health care service, particularly at primary care level with some challenges including the lack of quality control (including how to obtained and treat the specimen properly prior to the examination) which then, affect t…
Christopher Hoffmann, MD, MPH
Background: In 2023, the South African Department of Health introduced targeted universal TB testing (TUTT) at antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation (irrespective of the presence of TB symptoms). Guidelines regarding TPT initiation in the setting of TUTT are conflicting - recom…
Maunank Shah, MD, PhD
…tent tuberculosis will be recruited from the Baltimore City Health Department. The primary hypothesis is that the incentive intervention will increase the percentage of participants that complete the treatment for latent tuberculosis above the completion rates of participants rec…
Pranay Sinha, MD, Kobto G Khoura, MD, PhD
Undernutrition is a leading global risk factor of tuberculosis (TB) and a prevalent comorbidity associated with TB. In Benin, the National TB Program systematically provides nutritional support to all persons with TB (PWTB), distributing prepared foods to hospitalized patients an…
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
…f this pilot study. There are flagrant shortcomings in the health care pathways of patients with TB, with a significant proportion of unknown treatment outcomes, including a large number of those lost to follow-up secondary transmission, tuberculosis recurrence, and emergence fr…
Moustapha Ndir, MD, Christian Lienhardt, MD
…d controlled trial design, in populations served by defined health centres. Their efficacy will be measured in terms of improvement of the classical TB control programme indicators (cure rate, defaulter rate, failure rate, death rates). The methods will also be evaluated on their…
Per Bjorkman, MD, PhD
… involved, such as poverty, lack of education and access to healthcare. Infectious diseases constitute important threats to maternal health in resource-limited settings. Tuberculosis (TB) is reported to be the third leading cause of maternal death globally. Furthermore, TB can be…
Christopher Hoffmann, MD, MPH
…ion. In 2017, TPT initiation, as reported in the 2018 World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Report ranged from 1 to 53% for high burden African countries. South Africa reports higher rates of TPT initiation compared to the rest of the continent, but progress has plateaued and…
Christopher Hoffmann, MD, MPH, Jonathan Golub, PhD, MPH
…T packets will remain on pharmacy shelves and the potential health benefits will not reach those who need it. The overarching goal of this study is to identify a generalizable approach to overcome current barriers to delivery of TPT in order to achieve high levels of TPT deliver…
Sydney Rosen
…nts, who will be rewarded for identifying themselves to the healthcare system, and could prove to be an affordable alternative to resource-intensive home visits. It will also shift responsibility for contact tracing from overburdened clinic staff to those who have the most to gai…
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
…for unfavorable treatment outcome or loss to follow-up. The healthcare pathway of patients with tuberculosis presents glaring shortcomings with a large proportion of treatment outcomes unknown, including a large number of loss of follow-up resulting in secondary transmissions, re…
National University Hospital, Singapore
… sequelae Despite being declared an emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1993, tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health epidemic. A significant proportion of the global population is infected with TB, particularly in lower- to middle-income countries in resource-…
Aner H Khan
…on on treatment adherence among patients with PTB using the health belief model theory and MARS-5. 2. To evaluate the impact of pharmacist-led educational intervention on treatment outcomes among patients with PTB. 3. To evaluate the impact of pharmacist-led educational intervent…
University of Utah
…n the breath of smear positive TB patients when compared to healthy (smear negative) subjects. Analyses in these studies were done using gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy analysis tools. While they are effective in identifying and quantifying complex gas samples, they are expe…
Olanisun O Adewole, MD, Olanisun O Adewole, MD, Bolanle A Omotoso, MD
…eath globally. According to recent estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO), over 10 million new cases and 1.6 million deaths from TB occurred in 2021. The vast majority of TB cases and TB deaths are in developing countries. Nigeria has the highest TB burden in Africa w…
Huashan Hospital
…berculosis symptoms, tuberculosis-related history and other health conditions were also recorded, and the pregnancy outcomes of these patients were followed up. According to the results of clinical screening, they were divided into four cohorts: non-tuberculosis (non-TB) group, …
Theodora Mbunda, MD, PhD, Denise F Banze, MD, Junior Mutsvangwa, MD
…ed themselves. Among those who are infected, most will stay healthy but some will develop TB themselves. These people would benefit from preventive treatment, which would also stop TB from being spread to other persons. The problem currently is that it is impossible to determin…