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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…
Mathilda Regan, Hening Cui, Nicole A Swartwood, Yunfei Li, Suzanne M Marks, et al.
…nicity. A Markov cohort model was used to simulate lifetime health and economic outcomes under the intervention and status quo scenarios using 2011-19 tuberculosis surveillance data and published literature. **FINDINGS:** We designated 157 counties as intervention counties. The …
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 …
Kumari R S, Sethi G, Krishna R
…he host. Since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had colossal health, societal, and economic consequences, which have affected the reporting of new incidences and mortality cases of TB. As per the WHO 2022 report, 10.6 million people were diagnosed with TB, and 1.6 million died wor…
Teixeira de Siqueira-Filha N, Militao de Albuquerque MF, Cunha Rodrigues L, Legood R, Costa Santos A
…rediagnosis and treatment periods from the Brazilian public health system perspective. We applied a combination of bottom-up and top-down approaches to capture and estimate direct medical and non-medical costs. We measured the mean cost per patient per type of care (inpatient, ou…
Pasticci MB, Papalini C, Murgia N, Papili R, Bucaneve G, et al.
…ies with a high incidence of TB and the rising attention of health care institutions to economic costs. The aim of this study was to compare QuantiFERON-TB (QFT) and TST results in active TB. We evaluated QFT results and TST reactions from 245 consecutive patients having both tes…
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, …
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…
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…
Ran F, Wang Y, Zhang G, Guo H, Li J, et al.
…bally, exhibiting high morbidity rates and impacting public health and other socio-economic factors. However, some individuals are resistant to TB infection and are referred to as "Resisters". Resisters remain uninfected even after exposure to high load of Mycobacterium tuberculo…
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…
Malaisamy Muniyandi, Karikalan Nagarajan, Kavi Mathiyazhagan, Kirti Tyagi, Kavitha Rajsekar, et al.
…METHODS:** An economic modelling study was conducted from a health system perspective using decision tree analysis, which is most widely used for cost-effectiveness analysis using transition probabilities. Our goal was to estimate the incremental cost and number of TB cases preve…
Abdullahi LH, Oketch S, Komen H, Mbithi I, Millington K, et al.
Background Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health concern in Kenya despite the massive global efforts towards ending TB. The impediments to TB prevention and care efforts include poor health systems, resource limitations and other sociopolitical contexts that inform policy and…
Jansen-Aaldring N, van de Berg S, van de Berg S, van den Hof S
…ision options and treatment adherence interventions such as health education, psycho-emotional and socio-economic support. Patient support for persons on treatment for latent tuberculosis infection was less widely (9/19) implemented. Patient support guidelines were available in 1…
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…
Jineetkumar Gawad, Mayank Sharma, Neelam Kamble, Sanghadeep Gajbhiye, Sunita Ogale
…, the COVID-19 crisis has significantly disrupted essential health services in India, making TB control even more challenging.In a densely populated country such as India, the COVID-19 pandemic has further complicated TB regulation, as millions of Indians now carry latent TB infe…
Esther Annan, Erica L. Stockbridge, Eun‐Young Mun, Miller, Thaddeus L
…f LTBI-positive foreign-born persons have access to and use health insurance and private sector healthcare it may be feasible to conduct LTBI-related preventive care services in that setting. Aims: (1) Estimate LTBI prevalence among foreign-born individuals by health insurance st…
Auguste PE, Mistry H, McCarthy ND, Sutcliffe PA, Clarke AE
…istic and one-way sensitivity analyses. Setting UK National Health Service and Personal Social Service perspective in a primary care setting. Participants Hypothetical cohort of adults recently diagnosed with HIV. Interventions Interferon-gamma release assays and tuberculin skin …
Radha Gopalaswamy, Selvakumar Subbian
…and mortality due to TB are further worsened by co-existing health conditions and the emergence of drug-resistant (DR-TB) cases. The WHO has declared TB as a global emergency and endorsed global efforts to improve diagnosis, and treatment while reducing the catastrophic cost in a…