OBJECTIVES: In the Somali Regional State, Ethiopia, where most of the population are pastoralists, conventional TB treatment strategies based on directly observed treatment (DOT) at health facilities are not adapted to the mobile pastoralist lifestyle and treatment adherence is poor. From a rural district, we report on treatment outcomes of a modified self-administered treatment (SAT) strategy for pastoralists with TB. METHODS: A descriptive cohort study was carried out between May 2010 and March 2012. The modified DOT strategy comprised a shorter intensive phase at the health facility (2 weeks for new patients, 8 weeks in the event of re-treatment), followed by self-administered TB treatment. RESULTS: A total of 390 patients started TB tre...
Background: DOTS as a strategy was introduced to the tuberculosis control programme in Southern regi...
Background: TB is one of the world’s leading causes of death and of the global burden of disease. It...
Background. Assessing the outcomes of tuberculosis (TB) treatment is an important indicator for eval...
SETTING: In Cherrati District, Somali Regional State (SRS), Ethiopia, despite a high burden of tuber...
Background At the dawn of the third millennium, while the control of the second biggest infectious k...
Background At the dawn of the third millennium, while the control of the second biggest infectious k...
BACKGROUND: TB Control Programmes rely on passive case-finding to detect cases. TB notification rema...
OBJECTIVE: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is an emerging public health problem in Ethiopi...
Abstract Background Treatment outcomes serve as proxy measures of the quality of tuberculosis treatm...
World Health Organization (WHO) recommends directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) strategy ...
Objective: To compare tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes and associated factors among patients att...
Objective: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is an emerging public health problem in Ethiopi...
Many people still die of tuberculosis (TB). One-third of the world’s population is infected with M. ...
AbstractObjective/background: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) as a gl...
Directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) is the current mainstay to control tuberculosis (TB...
Background: DOTS as a strategy was introduced to the tuberculosis control programme in Southern regi...
Background: TB is one of the world’s leading causes of death and of the global burden of disease. It...
Background. Assessing the outcomes of tuberculosis (TB) treatment is an important indicator for eval...
SETTING: In Cherrati District, Somali Regional State (SRS), Ethiopia, despite a high burden of tuber...
Background At the dawn of the third millennium, while the control of the second biggest infectious k...
Background At the dawn of the third millennium, while the control of the second biggest infectious k...
BACKGROUND: TB Control Programmes rely on passive case-finding to detect cases. TB notification rema...
OBJECTIVE: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is an emerging public health problem in Ethiopi...
Abstract Background Treatment outcomes serve as proxy measures of the quality of tuberculosis treatm...
World Health Organization (WHO) recommends directly observed treatment short course (DOTS) strategy ...
Objective: To compare tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes and associated factors among patients att...
Objective: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is an emerging public health problem in Ethiopi...
Many people still die of tuberculosis (TB). One-third of the world’s population is infected with M. ...
AbstractObjective/background: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) as a gl...
Directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) is the current mainstay to control tuberculosis (TB...
Background: DOTS as a strategy was introduced to the tuberculosis control programme in Southern regi...
Background: TB is one of the world’s leading causes of death and of the global burden of disease. It...
Background. Assessing the outcomes of tuberculosis (TB) treatment is an important indicator for eval...