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Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health concern, particularly in low-resource settings. The treatment outcome is a crucial indicator of the effectiveness of TB treatment programs. Assessing the current treatment outcome and its associated factors is essential for improving patient care and...
with special attention to the distribution of medicines. It calculated that the "elementary health centres received on the average about 65% of the medicines they should have received", this proportion increasing for the "more
The training of African bioethics scholars at CWRU started in 2001, but there was already an ongoing Uganda-CWRU Research Collaboration, established in 1988 with funding from the US NIH, to build capacity and provide training through HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis research to improve care. Between 2001...
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It is possible that this could in part be explained by the implementation of 'The Draft National Infection Prevention And Control Policy For TB, MDRTB And XDRTB' and the 'Tuberculosis Strategic Plan For South Africa, 2007-2011' across the country in 2007. These two policy documents had ...
This has negatively affected the delivery of key population health interventions, such as immunization and tuberculosis control (Liu and Mills, 2002). Moreover, the heavy reliance on county financing for public health has resulted in large disparities in local capacity to implement disease prevention ...
Program-specific CHWs, e.g., providing malaria control in Colombia, Guinea worm disease and onchocerciasis in Africa; injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda; AIDS or tuberculosis care in New York City; immunization and discovery of unmanaged diabetes and hypertension in low-income ho...
Madison:I saw that firsthand when I was at the health department. I worked really closely with our tuberculosis department, and we did refugee and immigration processing, and I would have people from these very, very small rural areas within the Philippines, or we had several...