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Comparing cost-effectiveness of standardised tuberculosis treatments given varying drug resistance
There is a growing need to identify appropriate standardised treatment...
Resources
Here are some resources relevant to social science work in TB, many of which involve contributors of SSHIFTB.
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Control, struggle, and emergent masculinities: a qualitative study of men’s care-seeking determinants for chronic cough and tuberculosis symptoms in Blantyre, Malawi
Background: Men’s healthcare-seeking delay results in higher mortality while on...
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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Evaluation of Results Based Financing Strategies for Tuberculosis care and Control in India
Recognizing the critical need to engage with Private Practitioners (PPs),...
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The treatment journey of a patient with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa: is it patient-centred?
Published October 2013. To improve the treatment of patients co-infected...
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The Death of Shankar: Social Exclusion and Tuberculosis in a Poor Neighbourhood in Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Published September 2013. It was a simmering hot summer day...
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Tuberculosis diagnostics: Why we need more qualitative research
Published May 2013. After decades of neglect, the field of...
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Tuberculosis comorbidity with communicable and non-communicable diseases: integrating health services and control efforts
Published March 2013. Recent data for the global burden of...
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Engaging women volunteers of high socioeconomic status in supporting socioeconomically disadvantaged tuberculosis patients in Chiang Rai, Thailand
Problem The 2008 tuberculosis (TB) surveillance of Chiang Rai Hospital,...
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Connecting pills and people: an ethnography of the pharmaceutical nexus in Odisha, India
This article explores the impact of intensive competition within the...
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Ethical evaluation of immigration screening policy for latent tuberculosis infection
Objective: In Australia and New Zealand, immigration screening policy relating...
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Acceptability of masking and patient separation to control nosocomial Tuberculosis in Uganda: A qualitative study
Objectives This study explored the acceptability of cough etiquette, wearing...
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Innovating Tuberculosis Control in India
Published January 2012. Tuberculosis or TB is a very serious problem...
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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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Chronic cough and its association with TB–HIV co-infection: factors affecting help-seeking behaviour in Harare, Zimbabwe
Objective: To qualitatively investigate reasons why individuals who reported chronic...
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Gender and community views of stigma and tuberculosis in rural Maharashtra, India
Stigma associated with tuberculosis (TB) is often regarded as a...
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Observations on categorization of new TB cases: Implications for controlling drug resistance
In the context of rising rates of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB)...
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`Nation’, `Migration’ and Tuberculosis
Published July 2007. Tuberculosis (TB) is `re-emerging’ as a major...
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HIV-Testing for Life…HIV Testing for All Tuberculosis Patients: an entry point for TB patients to access to HIV prevention and care
For whom is this book made? This book is made...
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Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in India: an attempt to link biosocial determinants
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has emerged as a possible threat to...
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Cultural concepts of tuberculosis and gender among the general population without tuberculosis in rural Maharashtra, India
Gender-specific patterns of experience, meaning, and behaviour for tuberculosis (TB)...