Evaluation of the Catalyzing Pediatric TB Innovation Project: A Pre- and Post-implementation Assessment (TIPPI) across Ten Countries

Overview

This Unitaid-funded study assessed the effectiveness of the CaP TB Project on clinical outcomes and key service delivery factors. The study used a quasi-experimental, pre/post design to compare baseline and intervention outcomes among all pediatric patients (0-14 years of age) who presented to a CaP TB Project site in any of the ten countries and received TB services.

Data Collection Period: 01/2018 – 06/2021

Publications and Presentations:

1. Findings presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2020: “Pediatric TB detection and treatment cascade across nine sub-Saharan Countries following CaP-TB intervention”
2. Findings presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2020: “Implementing household contact investigation in high TB burden, resource-limited settings: lessons learnt from a multi-country project in 9 sub-Saharan countries”
3. Findings presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2020: “The effect of COVID-19 on childhood TB preventive treatment services in sub-Sahara Africa: experiences from CaP TB project”
4. Findings presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2020: “Finding missing pediatric TB cases through facility-based intensified case findings: lessons learnt from CaP TB project in Malawi”
5. Findings presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2020: “Increasing access to TB preventive treatment for children under-five in DRC: preliminary results”
6. Findings presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2020: “Increasing pediatric TB detection and treatment in private health sector in India”
7. Findings presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2020: “Thinking Outside the (TB) Box: Intensified pediatric-TB case finding in non-TB entry points in nine countries”
8. Findings presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2020: “Protecting Our Children from Active TB Disease – Expanding TB Preventive Therapy in Nine Sub-Saharan Countries”
9. Findings presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2020: “Increasing Case Detection Rate of Active TB among Children in 9 Sub-Saharan Countries: the CaP-TB Intervention”
10. Findings presented at the 51st Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2020: “Detecting and Preventing Pediatric TB through Systematic Household Contact Investigations in nine Countries”
11. Findings presented at the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2021: “Improving access to bacteriological confirmation for children under five in nine sub-Saharan countries”
12. Findings presented at the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2021: “Decentralising paediatric TB detection efforts increases case-finding in nine sub-Saharan countries”
13. Findings presented at the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2021: “Effect of COVID-19 on pediatric TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention cascades in CaP TB Project-supported facilities in Cameroon”
14. Findings presented at the 52nd Union World Conference on Lung Health, October 2021: “Comparing childhood TB outcomes in rural vs. urban settings during the CaP TB intervention in Cameroon: a programmatic outcome evaluation”