Journal Club

Dr. Nancy Bedingfield will discuss SSHIFTB contributors’ paper:  

Stillo J. Connecting the DOTS: Should we still be doing directly observed therapy? Human Organization. 2024.Jan 2; 83(1). 18 – 30; https://doi.org/10.1080/00187259.2023.2286173

There is also an optional companion commentary, Koch E & Versfeld A. Quiet complicity: Anthropologists and the medicalization of TB, Human Organization. 2014, 83(1), 3-6.

Abstract can be accessed here

Focus groups were conducted to support the co-development of a person-centred stigma intervention with TB-affected community members and health workers in South Africa.

This month's article will be presented by Dr Alanna Bergman, a nurse practitioner and post-doctoral research fellow in the Office of Nursing Research, University of Virginia

At the next session, we will be discussing a manuscript by Dr Lisa Redwood on perceptions of stigma amongst people diagnosed with TB in Vietnam.