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Rebecca F. Baggaley, Carolin Vegvari, Christian Akem Dimala, Marc Lipman, Robert F. Miller, et al.
…nded data supporting the claims of the related manuscript: “Health economic analyses of latent tuberculosis infection screening and preventive treatment among people living with HIV in lower tuberculosis incidence settings: a systematic review”.In a systematic review, the related…
Rebecca F. Baggaley, Carolin Vegvari, Christian Akem Dimala, Marc Lipman, Robert F. Miller, et al.
…of LTBI screening cost-effectiveness may improve uptake and health outcomes at reasonable cost. <b>Methods:</b> Our systematic review assessed cost-effectiveness estimates of LTBI screening/PT strategies among PLWH in lower TB incidence countries to identify model-driving inputs …
Tom Wingfield, Stéphane Verguet
…programmes (NTP).1WHOGlobal Tuberculosis Report 2018. World Health Organization, Geneva2018Google Scholar Of the remaining 6 million, many experienced substantial delays in accessing and receiving appropriate care.1WHOGlobal Tuberculosis Report 2018. World Health Organization, Ge…
Helen Ayles, Professor
…ll produce two major outputs of global importance to public health policy. The first will provide definitive evidence of the effectiveness of scaled up combination TB/HIV prevention interventions on TB. The second output will improve understanding of the best ways to measure the …
Digambar Behera
…ve led to many adverse impacts on societies, economies, and health-care delivery systems. All countries of the world are struggling to maintain their health care systems to cope under such extraordinary conditions. In addition to affecting medical care of various diseases, whethe…
Gèrard de Vries, Jossy van den Boogaard, Ibrahim Abubakar
The report of the Lancet Migration and Health Commission surmises that with a billion people on the move, this subject is one of the defining issues of our time [[1]Abubakar I Aldridge RW Devakumar D et al.The UCL-lancet commission on migration and health: the health of a world o…
Elif Nazlı Simge Kara
…enced a concerning resurgence, posing a major global public health threat. Despite being preventable and curable, socio-economic, immunological, and geopolitical factors have hindered TB control, contributing to its re-emergence. In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million individuals dev…
Elif Nazlı Simge Kara
…enced a concerning resurgence, posing a major global public health threat. Despite being preventable and curable, socio-economic, immunological, and geopolitical factors have hindered TB control, contributing to its re-emergence. In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million individuals dev…
Rebecca Berhanu, Karen R. Jacobson
…MPHRebecca H. Berhanu, MDBoston University School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsSearch for more papers by this author and Karen R. Jacobson, MD, MPHBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, MassachusettsSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclo…
Kaisheng Su, Ximeng Li, Zhenyu Jiang, Yifang Mei
…y, and additionally come with a substantial cost-burden for healthcare systems largely due to additional treatment and hospitalization needs. Furthermore, the treatment of RDs may also need to be put on hold when TB infections occur.7 Under such conditions, preventing LTBI reacti…
Wenhong Zhang, PhD
…nts * risk factors related to tuberculosis (TB) infection * health economic evaluation of screening strategy
Alice Halliday, Pooja Jain, Long Hoàng, Robert Parker, Mica Tolosa-Wright, et al.
…ures, measured each of the new technologies and performed a health economic analysis in which the best-performing tests were evaluated for cost-effectiveness. The diagnostic accuracy of the transcriptomic tests ranged from an AUC of 0.81 to 0.84 for detecting all TB in our cohort…
Marina Pinheiro, Diana Moreira, Carla Valente, Maria do Carmo Meirelles Toledo Cruz, Ana Aguiar, et al.
…forts, reduce TB transmission, and offer substantial public health and economic benefits, making this research highly relevant for policymakers and healthcare providers. Key messages • An important strength of this study lies in its pioneering approach of current recommendations …
Abdul Razzaq Malik
…reness regarding devastating consequences of tuberculosison health and economic aspects of life. This helps to launch efforts to end the globalepidemic of tuberculosis. On the date of 24th March in 1882, Dr. Robert Koch announced about the discovery of bacterium that causes tuber…
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a serious public 1 health and economic issue across the world.It is a highly contagious viral infection caused by the bacteria.Tiny droplets of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are released into the air by sneezes and coughs.A serious respiratory infec…
David Pride, Maria Gennaro, Michael Lauzardo, Niaz Banaei, Nahed Ismail, et al.
…d with TB each year which can pose significant economic and health care burdens on the global population. TB can infected the lungs (pulmonary TB) or other organs such as the brain, and kidneys (extra-pulmonary TB). When a person with pulmonary TB coughs or sneezes, water drople…
Mohd Fazeli bin Sazali, MD, MPH
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern, where it is among the top ten causes of death and the leading cause of death due to a single infectious agent globally. Providing standard anti-TB therapy for at least six months is recommended as one of the important strategies…
Jody Boffa, Dina A. Fisher, Maria Mayan, Reginald S. Sauve, Tyler Williamson
… IPT was offered at no charge through South Africa's public health system from 2011. Overlapping with IPT implementation, antiretroviral therapy (ART) was expanded at community level, with people living with HIV (PLWH) offered no-cost ART at progressively higher levels of immune …
Michael Lauzardo, Meghan Nodurft-Froman
…has received little attention from the international public health community, despite it being a key sentinel event indicating recent transmission and hence a window into efforts to control transmission.1Shingadia D Novelli V Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in children.La…
Hayder Al-Momen, Tareef Fadhil Raham, Aqil Mohammad Daher
… TB estimations, national BCG vaccination policy, the World Health Organization regions and economic classification, and COVID-19 mortality and number of cases. The analysis was performed using Spearman’s correlation test. RESULTS: Significant large negative correlation (−0.539, …
Senia Rosales-Klintz, Judith Bruchfeld, Walter Haas, Einar Heldal, Rein M G J Houben, et al.
… (TB) by 2035 following the ambitions outlined in the World Health Organization (WHO) End TB strategy [1] and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals [2]. Countries with a low incidence of TB, i.e. less than 10 incident cases per 100 000 population per year, should striv…
P. Étienne
…roposed the systematic used of LTBI, relayed through public health policies. A significant higher scientific production about LTBI was noted, supported by IGRA tests commercialization. Conclusion: In the recent years, health public policies, combined with epidemiologic and econom…
Samir Talib, Bilal Ashkar, Mustafa Alaziz, Faseeha Rahman, M Trautmann, et al.
…dition to economic burden to the individual patient and the health care system. The reactivation of latent tuberculosis can affect various organs, such progressive lung disease, spleen, liver, adrenal gland, joints and long bone, vertebra (Pott's disease), soft tissue, meninges, …
Biswajit Chakraborty, Amaj Laskar, Anamika Baruah, Remesh Kumar, Mustafa A. Barbhuiya
Tuberculosis (TB) poses a significant public health challenge in India. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), India tops the list of 30 countries responsible for 87% of global TB cases in 2023. Recent data indicates that India's TB incidence rate was 195 cases per 100…
Chrystal Bianca Udall, Christa Searle
…ive in this environment. South Africa has been on the World Health Organization’s list of 30 top tuberculosis-burdened countries in the world for the last two decades. The rate of individuals diseased with tuberculosis in informal settlements, however, is reported to be double th…