The contribution of a non-governmental organisation's Community Based Tuberculosis Care Programme to case finding in Myanmar: trend over time

• Main Authors: Htet Myet Win Maung (Author), Saw Saw (Author), Petros Isaakidis (Author), Mohammed Khogali (Author), Anthony Reid (Author), Nguyen Binh Hoa (Author), Ko Ko Zaw (Author), Saw Thein (Author), Si Thu Aung (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background It is estimated that the standard, passive case finding (PCF) strategy for detecting cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Myanmar has not been successful: 26% of cases are missing. Therefore, alternative strategies, such as active case finding (ACF) by community volunteers, have been in...