Executive summary Tuberculosis can be treated, prevented, and cured. Rapid, sustained
declines in tuberculosis deaths in many countries during the past 50 years provide …

Background The widespread use of antibiotics plays a major role in the development and
spread of antimicrobial resistance. However, important knowledge gaps still exist regarding …

How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to
put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new …

The cascade of care is a model for evaluating patient retention across sequential stages of
care required to achieve a successful treatment outcome. This approach was first used to …

Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is estimated to cause 13% of all antimicrobial resistance-
attributable deaths worldwide and is driven by both ongoing resistance acquisition and …

The use of standardised patients (SPs)—people recruited from the local community to
present the same case to multiple providers in a blinded fashion—is increasingly used to …

Before COVID-19 became a global pandemic, India was dealing with another, much older
epidemic—tuberculosis(TB)—which affected 2.64 million Indians in 2019 and killed nearly …

We visited 1519 villages across 19 Indian states in 2009 to (a) count all health care
providers and (b) elicit their quality as measured through tests of medical knowledge. We …

The care cascade—which evaluates outcomes across stages of patient engagement in a
health system—is an important framework for assessing quality of tuberculosis (TB) care. In …

As countries move towards achieving universal health coverage, efforts to engage all care
providers have gained more significance. Over a third of people estimated to have …