Ideas & Impact › Resources › Catalyzing Pediatric Tuberculosis Innovation (CaP TB) in Côte d’Ivoire

This fact sheet briefly overviews EGPAF’s Unitaid-funded CaP TB project in Côte d’Ivoire. This initiative aims to improve the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of active and latent TB in children, while scaling up the use of new, more effective and child-friendly anti-TB formulations.

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Effect of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services on case detection in Africa

Published December 2024

Introduction Paediatric tuberculosis (TB) underdiagnosis is a critical concern. The INPUT stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial assessed the impact of integrating child TB services into child healthcare on TB case detection among children under age 5 years. Methods We compared the standard of care, providing TB care in specific TB clinics (control phase), with the Catalysing Paediatric […]

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Tuberculosis (TB)

Countries:

Cameroon,

Kenya

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Tuberculosis Infection in Children and Adolescents

Published November 2024

The burden of tuberculosis (TB) in children and adolescents remains very significant. Several million children and adolescents are infected with TB each year worldwide following exposure to an infectious TB case and the risk of progression from TB infection to tuberculosis disease is higher in this group compared to adults. This review describes the risk […]

Topics:

Tuberculosis (TB)