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Tuberculosis and COVID-19 related stigma: Portuguese patients experiences
Introduction: Stigmatization of tuberculosis (TB) patients is well-documented, and several health-related...
European Region
Here are some resources relevant to social science work in TB, many of which involve contributors of SSHIFTB.
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Media
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine poses a threat to the control of drug-resistant TB in Europe and the world
In recent years, conflicts in Ethiopia, Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen...
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People-Centered, Rights-Based TB Legislation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Our study, “People-Centered, Rights-Based TB Legislation in Eastern Europe and...
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“You have to change your whole life”: A qualitative study of the dynamics of treatment adherence among adults with tuberculosis in the United Kingdom
Published May 2021. Maintaining adherence to treatment for tuberculosis (TB)...
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Spectres de la tuberculose: Une maladie du passé au temps présent
Published March 2021. À partir d’une enquête ethnographique sur la...
Report
Breaking the Silence: Human Rights, Gender, Stigma and Discrimination Barriers to TB Services in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Ukraine
The communities, rights, and gender (CRG) regional brief was developed...
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Between representing and intervening: Diagnosing childhood tuberculosis during a vaccine trial in South Africa
Understanding Tuberculosis and its Control: Anthropological and ethnographic Approaches Over...
Report
Impact of Long Term Hospitalization on People with Tuberculosis
Published 2018. SMIT launches the report on the Impact of...
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It’s also the System’. Republican Dilemmas in French Tuberculosis Prevention
Published May 2019. This chapter engages ethnographically with the ways...
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Colonial Hauntings: Migrant Care in a French Hospital
In France, the treatment of migrant patients is haunted, but...
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“Treatment is of primary importance, and social assistance is secondary”: A qualitative study on the organisation of tuberculosis (TB) care and patients’ experience of starting and staying on TB treatment in Riga, Latvia
Background Vulnerable individuals with tuberculosis (TB) struggle to access and...
Publication
‘Exotic no more’: Tuberculosis, public debt and global health in Berlin
Geographical divisions between North and South are coming increasingly undone...
Media
Respecting Human Rights in TB Prevention and Care
Union conference talk by Jonathan Stillo about human rights and...
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‘They prefer hidden treatment’: anti-tuberculosis drug-taking practices and drug regulation in Karakalpakstan
Setting: The joint Médecins Sans Frontières/Ministry of Health Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis...
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Where there is hope: a qualitative study examining patients’ adherence to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis treatment in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
Published July 2016. Background Treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)...
Report
Tuberculosis Legal Environment Review in Kyrgyzstan, 2016
Published June 2016. The legal review in relation to Tuberculosis...
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The Precariousness of Public Health: On Tuberculosis Control in Contemporary France
Published September 2015. Through an ethnographic exploration of tuberculosis control...
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The social context of tuberculosis treatment in urban risk groups in the United Kingdom: a qualitative interview study
Published March 2015. Objectives There is scant qualitative research into...
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“I Can Also Serve as an Inspiration”: A Qualitative Study of the TB&Me Blogging Experience and Its Role in MDR-TB Treatment
Published September 2014. Background In 2011, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
Report
Falling Short: A Civil Society Perspective Of The European Response To Multi & Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB), 2014
The consolidated action plan to prevent and combat M/XDR-TB 2011-2015...
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Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that declined significantly throughout...
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`Nation’, `Migration’ and Tuberculosis
Published July 2007. Tuberculosis (TB) is `re-emerging’ as a major...