Innovative community-based approaches doubled tuberculosis case notification and improve treatment outcome in Southern Ethiopia.

Innovative community-based approaches doubled tuberculosis case notification and improve treatment outcome in Southern Ethiopia.

BACKGROUND: TB Control Programmes rely on passive case-finding to detect cases. TB notification remains low in Ethiopia despite major expansion of health services. Poor rural communities face many barriers to service access. METHODS AND FINDINGS: A community-based intervention package was implemente...

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Main Authors: Mohammed A Yassin, Daniel G Datiko, Olivia Tulloch, Paulos Markos, Melkamsew Aschalew, Estifanos B Shargie, Mesay H Dangisso, Ryuichi Komatsu, Suvanand Sahu, Lucie Blok, Luis E Cuevas, Sally Theobald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3664633?pdf=render

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