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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…
Collins Timire, Rein M G J Houben, Debora Pedrazzoli, Rashida A. Ferrand, Claire Calderwood, et al.
…me and indicators on five capital assets: financial, human, social, natural and physical. We determined proportions of impoverished households for periods 12 months prior and at the time of the interview. Households with incomes below US$1.90/day were considered to be impoverishe…
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…
Beatrice Kirubi, Jane Rahedi Ong’ang’o, Peter Nguhiu, Knut Lönnroth, Aiban Rono, et al.
…nd their households. Aim : 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 repres…
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.
Robyn S. Lee, Jean‐François Proulx, Fiona McIntosh, Marcel A. Behr, William P. Hanage
…se people had visited the same ‘gathering houses’ which are social venues in the community. Implementing targeted public health interventions at these sites may help stop future outbreaks. To fully understand how useful this method will be for tracking the spread of tuberculosis,…
Conor J. Meehan
…se people had visited the same ‘gathering houses’ which are social venues in the community. Implementing targeted public health interventions at these sites may help stop future outbreaks. To fully understand how useful this method will be for tracking the spread of tuberculosis,…
Jamieson O’Marr, Crhistinne Cavalheiro Maymone Gonçalves, Denise Arakaki-Sánchez, Daniele Maria Pelissari, Fernanda Dockhorn Costa, 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 tuberculosis cases reported to Brazil’s Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação (SINAN)…
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…
V.B. Avdentova, E.M. Belilovsky, Borisov Se, E. M. Bogorodskaya, O. N. Zuban, et al.
…erved drug susceptibility increased with age. Patients from socially disadvantaged groups (unemployed/homeless, disabled, retired people) had 3.4 times higher risk of an unfavourable treatment outcome, the probability of death from TB – odds ratio (OR) = 18.4, treatment interrupt…
Collins Timire, Mkhokheli Ngwenya, Joconiah Chirenda, John Metcalfe, Katharina Kranzer, et al.
…-sectoral approach to TB control and linking TB patients to social protection schemes holds promise for reducing catastrophic costs in Zimbabwe.
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 …
Malika Gabdullina, Saya Gazezova, Gulzhan Ayapova, Manar Smagul, Roberta Horth, et al.
…itive tuberculosis in Almaty, Kazakhstan. People with lower social stability were at increased risk. Results point to the need for improved continuity of care for TB treatment for people at increased risk of unfavorable outcomes, especially during disease outbreaks and pandemics.…
Jannat Nabaziwa, Eustes Kigongo, Amir Kabunga, Walter Acup, Sean Steven Puleh
Uganda has a high incidence of tuberculosis infection at 200 cases per 100,000 people. With effective therapy and adherence to medications is essential for reducing the spread of tuberculosis in the community. However, many of the initiated patients do not get to finish the entir…