Supporting tuberculosis program in active contact tracing: a case study from Pakistan

• Main Authors: Babar Tasneem Shaikh (Author), Ahmed Khan Laghari (Author), Sulaiman Durrani (Author), Alina Chaudhry (Author), Nabeela Ali (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Tuberculosis (TB) is on the rise in Pakistan and there could be multiple reasons including poverty, difficulty in access to TB treatment services, non-compliance with treatment, social stigma etc. According to the TB program managers, limited treatment and testing sites for tuberculosis and...