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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
…taff and infrastructure, making them unsuitable for primary health care (PHC). The overall objectives for this project are to: 1. To evaluate the performance of selected TB tests and test combinations in primary health care settings and KVPs. 2. To identify test combinations th…
Allison Portnoy, Rebecca A. Clark, Chathika K. Weerasuriya, Christinah Mukandavire, Matthew Quaife, et al.
…risk protection from introducing novel TB vaccines, and how health and economic benefits would be distributed across income quintiles. Methods: We modelled the impact of introducing TB vaccines meeting the WHO preferred product characteristics in 105 LMICs. For each country, we a…
Shantanu Bhati
…tem. This is a chronic disease. Cancer is not only a public health problem, but also a social and economic problem. Smallpox was the first infectious disease to be declared a "global emergency" by the WHO in 1993 because of its toll on individual health and its wider social and e…
Marc d’Elbée, Martin Harker, Nyashadzaishe Mafirakureva, Mastula Nanfuka, Minh Huyen Ton Nu Nguyet, et al.
…ralising childhood tuberculosis diagnosis services to lower health system levels could improve case detection, but there is little empirically based evidence on cost-effectiveness or budget impact. Methods We assessed the cost-effectiveness and budget impact of decentralising a c…
Justin T. Denholm, Marcel A. Behr, Gèrard de Vries, Richard Anthony, Esther Robinson, et al.
…ng (WGS) to support key aspects of tuberculosis (TB) public health and clinical practice, including monitoring of laboratory and clinical practices, detection and surveillance of drug resistance, and guidance of targeted public health interventions such as expanded contact invest…
Kimberly Conteddu, Holly M. English, Andrew W. Byrne, Bawan Amin, Laura L. Griffin, et al.
…epresent a significant societal challenge in terms of their health and economic impacts. One Health approaches to managing zoonotic diseases are becoming more prevalent, but require novel thinking, tools and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is one examp…
Regina Idu Ejemot-Nwadiaro, Edisua H. Itam, Emmanuel Ezedinachi
…gent on addressing ways of reducing the impact of TB to the health, socio-economic and health system of populations most at risk. Micronutrients supplementation is increasingly being recognized as having great potentials to that effect.
 Objective: This study thus assessed t…
Samuel Ndakotsu Gana, Zigwai Gloria Kuyet, Abdurrahman Hassan Jibril
…species paratuberculosis (MAP). Due to its impact on animal health and severe economic loss, the disease is recognized and reported in developed countries as a significant disease of livestock importance. The paper aims to review the current information about paratuberculosis in …
H Buhari, E Dahiru, E Dahiru, U Abubakar, A Kudi, et al.
…gious, and bacterial disease of immense economic and public health importance globally. It affects domestic and wild animals and man causing respirato-ry disease and to a certain extent, generalized body lesions depending on the mode of transmission and the animal species affecte…
Jaklin Svetoslavova Doncheva - Dilova, Vladimir Milanov, Vladimira Boyadzhieva, Nikolay Stoilov
…countries in the modern world pose new challenges to public health. Over the centuries, infectious diseases have proven to be one of the major threats to global health. Historically, several pandemics and epidemics have changed and claimed the lives of millions of people around t…
Tim Nguyen
Multilateral health aid is a thoroughly discussed topic in the studies of economic development. This paper builds upon the literature on the Global Fund’s health aid programme by outlining the general issues concerning health aid paradigms. Our quantitative framework uses a fixed…
Savvas Zannetos, Theodora Zachariadou, Tonia Adamidi, Andreas Georgiou

 Background: Tuberculosis remains a major public health problem with considerable economic burden worldwide. The aim of this study was to estimate the economic burden of tuberculosis in Cyprus during 2009. 
 Methods: A retrospective probabilistic incidence-based cost o…
Vishal Chauhan
Health inequality has been a major cause of concern across the world largely among policy planners, medical professionals and citizens. Despite higher levels of per capita income, substantial differences in health status are found within developed countries. This can be attribute…
Nadia A. Sam‐Agudu, Chandy C. John
…iod with the COVID-19 pandemic, the critical role of global health equity in preventing and controlling pandemics has received far too little attention. A major manifestation of this inequity is in access to COVID-19 vaccine supply in the global effort to reach herd immunity. The…
Zeinab M. Zaki, Magdy M. Khalil, Khaled M. Wagih, Hieba G. Ezzelregal
…demic expanded very rapidly to become a great global public health problem with wide health, economic, social, and developmental consequences that have not been seen with any other disease. Globally, there have been gains across the HIV testing and treatment cascade. The greatest…
Fregky Apay, Rohmani Rohmani
…erculosis (TB) is an infectious disease as a major cause of health problems. TB is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A quarter of the world's population has been infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Diagnosis and …
World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
…ssing them demands a holistic approach, reaching beyond the health sector alone. In response to this, several United Nations agencies made a joint commitment to support Member States in scaling up cross-sectoral approaches to address the risk factors and determinants of these thr…
Angella Musiimenta, PhD
…sis medication adherence. Tuberculosis is a serious public health concern which kills more people annually than HIV and malaria combined. Worldwide, nearly 10 million people develop tuberculosis and nearly 2 million people die from tuberculosis annually. Low-income countries acc…
Rivaldo Heru Setiawan
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health challenge, with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) contributing substantially to poor outcomes. Conventional regimens span 18–24 months, leading to limited adherence and treatment success. Shorter treatment regimens …
Ketema Tafess, Teresa Beyen, Sisay Girma, Asnakech Wondimu, G. G. Siu
Abstract Background : Tuberculosis remains a serious public health concern globally. The enormous social, economic and health impacts of the diseases are attributed to the lack of detailed understanding of the prevalence, geospatial distribution, population structures, and genoty…
Abu Kausar Mohammad, Morshed Nasir, Sujat Paul, Habibur Rahman, Abul Kalam, et al.
Pneumonia is a worldwide, serious threat to health and an enormous socio-economic burden for health care system. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with a significant mortality and morbidity. Knowledge of predominant microbial patterns in CAP constitutes the basis f…
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time.Spreading to nearly every country in the world, it is generating major economic and social costs with potential longlasting scars.Governments of Asia-Pacific countries and territories have acted …
Marc Lipman, Christopher Finn McQuaid, Ibrahim Abubakar, Mishal Khan, Katharina Kranzer, et al.
… virus SARS-CoV-2 and its disease COVID-19 dominated global health and disrupted national economies. Its direct effect has been felt in every country; its secondary impact has played out on other global diseases such as TB. The United Nations Secretary General's 2020 progress rep…
Abdillah Ahsan, Fitri Kurnia Rahim, Elisabeth Kramer, Indah Suci Widyahening, Maulida Gadis Utami
… conducted with 32 recovered TB patients at three community health centers (Moru, Alor Kecil, and Kenarilang). In-depth interviews were held with six key local stakeholders, including representatives from the Health Office, the Research and Development Unit, three heads of commun…
katherine Horton
…e care they needed. This denies those affected the right to health and wellbeing and also puts others at risk. Gender has a powerful influence on health and wellbeing, intersecting with other individual, social, and economic factors to impact on people’s right to health and equit…