Background An understanding of the trends in tuberculosis incidence, prevalence, and
mortality is crucial to tracking of the success of tuberculosis control programmes and …

Tuberculosis (TB) remains disproportionately concentrated among the poor, yet known
determinants of TB reactivation may fail to explain observed disparities in disease rates …

South Asian countries have developed infectious disease control programs such as routine
immunization, vaccination, and the provision of essential drugs which are operating …

Summary Background The End TB Strategy places great emphasis on increasing social
protection and poverty alleviation programmes. However, the role of social protection on …

Background In light of the limitations of the current case finding strategies and the global
urgency to improve tuberculosis (TB) case-detection, a renewed interest in active case …

Background One of the main goals of the post-2015 global tuberculosis (TB) strategy is that
no families affected by TB face catastrophic costs. We revised an existing TB patient cost …

Background The objectives of this study were to assess the tuberculosis (TB) burden and to
provide an insight into the type of circulating M. tuberculosis species in urban slums of …

We reviewed the records of 337 confirmed cases of tuberculosis patients in Monrovia, the
capital of Liberia, 2015. The risk factors affecting the survival and multidrug-resistance of …

Objective The main objective of this study was to assess time to death and associated risk
factors among tuberculosis (TB) patients. Results A total of 769 TB patients were studied and …

Background: Nigeria ranks 10th among 22 high TB burden countries with low TB case
detection that relies on passive case finding. Although there is increasing body of evidence …