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Beyond the numbers : interpreting the 2016 global tuberculosis report to inform policy and practice in the East African Community

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Date
30/03/2017
Author
Sabiiti, Wilber
TWENDE consortium
Keywords
RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
3rd-DAS
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
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Abstract
By the year 2000 five East African Community (EAC) member states: Uganda,Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi had adopted the WHO directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS), a policy meant to speed up the control of tuberculosis (TB) through effective diagnosis and treatment. However the rate of TB burden reduction has been slow to the extent that three of the EAC member states:Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania are still categorised as high TB burden countries. We analyse the WHO 2016 TB report and draw key lessons to inform policy and practice for effective control of TB. Comprehensive implementation of existing policy including adequate financing, universal access to diagnosis and treatment, and socioeconomic empowerment of affected communities is critical for ending TB in East Africa and the world at large.
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Sabiiti , W & TWENDE consortium 2017 , ' Beyond the numbers : interpreting the 2016 global tuberculosis report to inform policy and practice in the East African Community ' , East African Health Research Journal , vol. 1 , no. 1 . https://doi.org/10.24248/EAHRJ-D-16-00364
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East African Health Research Journal
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24248/EAHRJ-D-16-00364
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Journal article
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© Sabiiti. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.24248/EAHRJ-D-16-00364
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The TWENDE consortium is funded by European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) grant No. EDCTP-CSA-2014-283.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10553

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