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Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment Uptake Among Patients Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi: Children Left Behind
Published November 24, 2025
Background: Tuberculosis preventive treatment (TPT) is recommended for people living with HIV (PLHIV) to reduce the tuberculosis (TB) incidence in regions with a high prevalence of TB. We evaluated the uptake and completion of TPT among newly initiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) patients in a programme setting in Malawi. Objectives: To describe TPT…
Topics:
Pediatric Tuberculosis (TB),
Tuberculosis (TB)
Countries:
Malawi
Journal Articles
Effect of integrating paediatric tuberculosis services into child healthcare services on case detection in Africa
Published December 18, 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…
Topics:
Tuberculosis (TB)
Countries:
Cameroon,
Kenya
Journal Articles
Tuberculosis Infection in Children and Adolescents
Published October 31, 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.
Topics:
Tuberculosis (TB)
Journal Articles
Decentralisation and integration of paediatric tuberculosis services to primary healthcare facilities as an approach to optimise management in Cameroon and Kenya
Published October 30, 2024
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality for children less than 5 years. Diagnosis and treatment of children with active TB is often centralised in district hospital settings due to poor public health infrastructure and lack of diagnostic capabilities in primary healthcare (PHC) facilities. This analysis…
Topics:
Tuberculosis (TB)
Countries:
Cameroon,
Kenya
Issue Briefs
Building a Future of Health
Published October 2, 2024
An Unspoken Crisis: Children Are Being Left Behind In 2022, one child died every six seconds. The causes of most of those deaths were preventable. This is unacceptable. Whereas countries have the tools and knowledge to end preventable deaths and suffering in children, children face inequalities in access to health…
Topics:
Pediatric HIV,
Tuberculosis (TB)
Journal Articles
Effect of COVID-19 on Paediatric TB Service Delivery and Patients’ Comfort Receiving TB Services in Cameroon and Kenya During COVID
Published August 25, 2024
Background The outbreak of COVID-19 has caused a setback to the gains achieved in tuberculosis (TB) control by impairing TB diagnosis, delaying treatment initiation and aggravating TB deaths. This study explored the effect of COVID-19 on paediatric TB services provided through the Catalysing Paediatric TB Innovations (CaP-TB) project among caregivers…
Topics:
Global Health Security,
Tuberculosis (TB)
Countries:
Cameroon,
Kenya
Issue Briefs
Investing in Tuberculosis Control in Africa
Published August 19, 2024
In 2022, 1.3 million children became ill with tuberculosis (TB) and 250,000 children died of the illness globally. Africa is disproportionately burdened by TB, with 17 of the 30 highest TB burden countries located on the continent. The region reported 2.5 million new TB cases and 424,000 deaths from…
Topics:
Advocacy,
Tuberculosis (TB)
Issue Briefs
Addressing Child & Adolescent Tuberculosis Case Finding Gaps in Africa
Published August 19, 2024
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant and ongoing public health challenge in Africa, with the continent bearing a disproportionate burden. Seventeen of the 30 countries with the highest TB burden globally are African nations.1 In 2022, an estimated 322,000 children and young adolescents (under 15 years) in…
Topics:
Advocacy,
Tuberculosis (TB)
Journal Articles
‘We did not even know it was Tuberculosis’
Published July 9, 2024
Introduction Paediatric tuberculosis (TB) is often undiagnosed and under-reported. The Catalysing Paediatric TB (CaP-TB) programme provided integrated and decentralised TB screening and diagnosis services through multiple paediatric care entry points. This qualitative evaluation explores acceptability of the CaP-TB programme and existing knowledge and perceptions of paediatric TB. Methods A descriptive…
Topics:
Tuberculosis (TB)
Countries:
Cameroon,
Kenya