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Jamal Hassan Mohamoud
…opulation displacement, fragile health systems, and adverse social determinants of health. Although Somalia has made progress in expanding TB services and achieving favourable treatment outcomes for drug-susceptible TB, the country continues to experience a high TB burden and eme…
Nidoi J, Muttamba W, Walusimbi S, Imoko JF, Lochoro P, et al.
…he lowest treatment success rate nationally. Addressing the social determinants of TB is crucial to ending TB. This study sought to understand the extent and ways in which socio-economic factors affect TB treatment outcomes in Karamoja. Methods We conducted a convergent parallel …
Sillah AK, Devoid I, Ndenkeh JJ, Moonga G, Loum I, et al.
Objective To determine the social impact of adult TB on child household contacts living in the Greater Banjul Area, The Gambia. Methods This was a prospective observational cohort study among adults (≥18 years) starting treatment for drug-susceptible pulmonary TB between June 201…
Chatterjee S, Stallworthy G, Das P, Vassall A
Providing social support to tuberculosis (TB) patients is a recommended strategy as households having TB patients find themselves in a spiral of poverty because of high cost, huge income loss and several other economic consequences associated with TB treatment. However, there are…
Kirubi B, Ong'ang'o J, Nguhiu P, Lönnroth K, Rono A, et al.
…ents and their households. The study sought to identify the determinants for catastrophic costs among patients with drug-sensitive TB (DSTB) and their households in Kenya. Methods The data was collected during the 2017 Kenya national patient cost survey from a nationally represen…
Timire C, Houben RMGJ, Pedrazzoli D, Ferrand RA, Calderwood CJ, et al.
…me and indicators on five capital assets: financial, human, social, natural and physical. Households with incomes per capita below US$1.90/day were considered impoverished. We used principal component analysis on five capital asset indicators to create a binary outcome variable i…
Timire C, Ngwenya M, Chirenda J, Metcalfe JZ, Kranzer K, et al.
…ectoral approaches to TB control and linking TB patients to social protection may reduce catastrophic costs.
O Marr JM, Gonçalves C, Arakaki-Sanchez D, Pelissari DM, Costa FD, et al.
…the past two decades; however, treatment outcomes and their determinants among incarcerated individuals in this region are not well understood. METHODS: Newly diagnosed drug-susceptible TB cases reported to Brazil´s Information System for Notifiable Diseases ( Sistema de Informaç…
Jawad N, Jafri S, Saifullah N, Ahmed N
…ar. Data analysis was done on SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences-version 20.0). Rate of sputum positivity after 2 months of anti-tubercular drug treatment was 17.8%. None of the above-mentioned demographic and clinical factors was associated with persistence of sputum …