Drones and digital adherence monitoring for community-based tuberculosis control in remote Madagascar: A cost-effectiveness analysis.
BACKGROUND:Continuing tuberculosis control with current approaches is unlikely to reach the World Health Organization's objective to eliminate TB by 2035. Innovative interventions such as unmanned aerial vehicles (or drones) and digital adherence monitoring technologies have the potential to en...
Main Authors: | Lulua Bahrainwala, Astrid M Knoblauch, Andry Andriamiadanarivo, Mohamed Mustafa Diab, Jesse McKinney, Peter M Small, James G Kahn, Elizabeth Fair, Niaina Rakotosamimanana, Simon Grandjean Lapierre |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235572 |
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