Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) represents a threat to health and development in countries with high TB burden. China's MDR-TB prevalence rate of 6.8% is the highest in the world. Interventions to remove barriers against effective TB control, and prevention of MDR-TB are urgently needed in the country. This paper reports a cross-sectional questionnaire survey of 513 pulmonary TB (PTB...

The efficiency of malaria prevention during pregnancy was compared between three studies in Benin for malaria infection of the placenta (MIP) and low birth weight (LBW). The first was carried out when chloroquine prophylaxis was still recommended, the second was an intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) clinical trial comparing sulfadoxine pyrimetamine (SP) versus mefloquine, and...

TO THE EDITOR—Pasipanodya and Gumbo address an important question in their article: Is directly observed therapy (DOT) superior to self-administered treatment (SAT) for tuberculosis? [1] Unfortunately, however, their analysis contains some serious flaws. Two of the distinct studies that the authors include from Cape Town are actually from the same trial [2, 3]. Therefore, there is double counti...

BACKGROUND The rate of chronic health conditions (CHCs) in children and adolescents has doubled in the past 20 years, with increased health care costs. Technology-based interventions have demonstrated efficacy to improving medication adherence. However, data to support the cost effectiveness of these interventions are lacking. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to conduct an economic ev...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis rates in the world remain high, especially in low- and middle-income countries. International tuberculosis (TB) policy generally recommends the use of directly observed therapy (DOT) to ensure treatment adherence. OBJECTIVE This article examines a change in TB treatment support that occurred in 2005 in South Africa, from DOT to the enhanced TB adherence programme (ETA)...

Suggested citation: New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute. /Incorporating Tuberculosis into Public Health Core Curriculum./ 2009: SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES EXERCISE 4: Ethical Concerns In Delivering Public Health Services Debate: Arguments For and Against Universal Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) for Tuberculosis (TB) STUDENT Version 1.0 This case study was developed by t...

Tuberculosis (TB) disease can be caused by either recent transmission from infectious patients or reactivation of remote latent infection. Spatial dependency (correlation between nearby geographic areas) in tuberculosis incidence is a signature for chains of recent transmission with geographic diffusion. To understand the contribution of recent transmission in the TB endemic in Taiwan, where re...

INTRODUCTION Directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS) strategy is one of the vital components of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) came into existence in 1997. Directly observed treatment providers (DOT providers) are the grass root level link between program and clients. AIMS This study was undertaken to assess the quality of DOTS and facilities available at DOT ...

This is a qualitative study performed in the theoretical framework of the Theory of Social Determination of the Health-Disease process and the concept of Compliance. The goal was to analyze meanings of DOTS in compliance with tuberculosis treatment, according to healthcare professionals of the Technical Healthcare Supervision of Butantã (SUVIS), a region of the São Paulo City Healthcare Secreta...