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Tuberculosis Pathways to Care and Transmission of Multidrug Resistance in India

Published January 2022. Rationale India is experiencing a regional increase in cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis...

TB case fatality and recurrence in a private sector cohort in Mumbai, India

Published September 2021. Background Half of India´s three million TB patients are treated in the...

Asia emerges as a hotbed of diagnostic innovations for tuberculosis

Bigio, J., van Gemert, W., Kaiser, B., Waning, B., & Pai, M. (2021). Asia emerges...

Sales of antibiotics and hydroxychloroquine in India during the COVID-19 epidemic: An interrupted time series analysis

Background We assessed the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in India on...

Implementing radical cure diagnostics for malaria: user perspectives on G6PD testing in Bangladesh

Published May 2021. Background The radical cure of Plasmodium vivax requires treatment with an 8-aminoquinoline drug, such...

Dr. Zahir’s dilemma: money and morals in India’s private medical networks

Public health experts often describe care in India’s private sector as ‘chaotic,’ ‘substandard,’ ‘profit-driven,’ and...

Contact tracing for tuberculosis, Thailand

Abstract Problem: Despite implementation of universal health coverage in Thailand, gaps remain in the system for...

Assessment of the Xpert assay among adult pulmonary tuberculosis suspects with and without diabetes mellitus

SETTING: Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation area, Maharashtra State, India. OBJECTIVE: To assess the sensitivity and...

Capacity-building of affected communities for accelerated to drug-resistant tuberculosis in the South-East Asia Region

GCTA. (2019). Capacity-building of affected communities for accelerated to drug-resistant tuberculosis in the South-East Asia Region.

Between representing and intervening: Diagnosing childhood tuberculosis during a vaccine trial in South Africa

Understanding Tuberculosis and its Control: Anthropological and ethnographic Approaches Over the last two decades, attempts...

In the eye of the multiple beholders: Qualitative research perspectives on studying and encouraging quality of TB care in India

Published August 2019. This paper outlines insights qualitative research brings to the study of quality...

Fear of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis as Social Contagion

This article explores the spread of tuberculosis, the fear of infection as well as rejection and...

Involving private practitioners in the Indian tuberculosis program: a randomized trial

Published March 2018. Objectives To assess a multicomponent intervention to improve private practitioners (PPs) involvement...

“Before Xpert I only had my expertise”: A qualitative study on the utilization and effects of Xpert technology among pediatricians in 4 Indian cities

Published March 2018. Background Diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in children presents considerable challenges. Upfront testing on...

Patients Pathways to Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment in a Fragmented Health System: A Qualitative Study from a South Indian district

Background India’s Revised National Tuberculosis (TB) Control Programme (RNTCP) offers free TB diagnosis and treatment....

How patients navigate a fragmented health system to reach a diagnosis: A qualitative study from India

Background: Depending on a country’s diagnostic infrastructure, patients and providers play different roles in ensuring...

Diagnosing at Point of Care in South India: Coordination Work and Frictions

Point-of-care testing promises to cut diagnostic and treatment delays by ensuring patients receive a management...

Emergence of drug resistance in patients with tuberculosis cared for by the Indian health-care system: a dynamic modelling study

Background: India has the highest number of patients with tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the world....