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Toward a conceptual framework of the acceptability of tuberculosis treatment in children using a theory generative approach
Featuring contributor: Dillon T. Wademan To describe an early-stage holistic...
Resources
Here are some resources relevant to social science work in TB, many of which involve contributors of SSHIFTB.
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Social and health factors associated with adverse treatment outcomes among people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Sierra Leone: a national, retrospective cohort study
Summary Background Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a global health emergency....
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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Rapid molecular tests for tuberculosis and tuberculosis drug resistance: a qualitative evidence synthesis of recipient and provider views
Published April 2022. Programmes that introduce rapid molecular tests for...
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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...
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‘TB is a disease which hides in the body’: Qualitative data on conceptualisations of tuberculosis recurrence among patients in Zambia and South Africa
Published October 2020. The WHO estimates 58 million people experienced...
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“I’m fed up”: experiences of prior anti-tuberculosis treatment in patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV
Objectives: To understand the impact of past experiences of anti-tuberculosis treatment...
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“This is not my body”: Therapeutic experiences and post-treatment health of people with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis
Published October 2o21. Background There are few data on the...
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The devil we know: is the use of injectable agents for the treatment of MDR-TB justified?
Published November 2017. For decades, second-line injectable agents (IAs) have...
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Hear us! Accounts of people treated with injectables for drug-resistant TB
BACKGROUND: WHO drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) treatment recommendations now emphasize all-oral regimens,...
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Rapid molecular tests for tuberculosis and tuberculosis drug resistance: provider and recipient views
Published September 2021. Objectives This is a protocol for a...
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Dynamic needs and challenges of people with drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV in South Africa: a qualitative study
Background: There is little evidence of patient acceptability for drug-resistant...
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‘We had to manage what we had on hand, in whatever way we could’: adaptive responses in policy for decentralized drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa
Published February 2021. In 2011, the South African National TB...
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Psychometric evaluation of a new drug-resistant tuberculosis stigma scale
Published January 2021. Stigma contributes to diagnostic delay, disease concealment,...
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“Take the treatment and be brave”: Care experiences of pregnant women with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis
Published December 2020. Background There are few data on the...
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Measuring Stigma to Assess the Social Justice Implications of Health-Related Policy Decisions: Application to Novel Treatment Regimens for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
In making policy decisions with constrained resources, an important consideration...
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“A very humiliating illness”: a qualitative study of patient-centered Care for Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis in South Africa
Published January 2020. Background Patient-centered care is pillar 1 of...
Report
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...
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Fear of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis as Social Contagion
This article explores the spread of tuberculosis, the fear of...
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Health care gaps in the global burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis
The drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) cascade—from estimated or incident cases to...
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Health care gaps in the global burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis
The drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) cascade-from estimated or incident cases to...
Report
Impact of Long Term Hospitalization on People with Tuberculosis
Published 2018. SMIT launches the report on the Impact of...
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Interventions to improve retention-in-care and treatment adherence among patients with drug- resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review
Published January 2019. The global loss to follow-up (LTFU) rate...