Eric Wobudeya, Mastula Nanfuka, Minh Huyen Ton Nu Nguyet, Jean-Voisin Taguebue, Raoul Moh, Guillaume Breton, Celso Khosa, Laurence Borand, Juliet Mwanga-Amumpaire, Ayeshatu Mustapha, Sylvie Kwedi Nolna, Eric Komena, Jacob Ross Mugisha, Naome Natukunda, Bunnet Dim, Agathe de Lauzanne, Saniata Cumbe, Eric Balestre, Julien Poublan, Manon Lounnas, Eden Ngu, Basant Joshi, Pierre-Yves Norval, Etienne Leroy Terquiem, Stavia Turyahabwe, Lynda Foray, Souleymane Sidibé, Kuate Kuate Albert, Ivan Manhiça, Moorine Sekadde, Anne Detjen, Sabine Verkuijl, Tan Eang Mao, Joanna Orne-Gliemann, Maryline Bonnet, Olivier Marcy
BACKGROUND: Childhood tuberculosis (TB) remains underdiagnosed largely because of limited awareness and poor access to all or any of specimen collection, molecular testing, clinical evaluation, and chest radiography at low levels of care. Decentralising childhood TB diagnostics to district hospitals (DH) and primary health centres (PHC) could improve case detection. METHODS: We conducted an operational research study using a pre-post intervention cross-sectional study design in 12 DHs and 47 PHCs of 12 districts across Cambodia, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Uganda...
April 2024: EClinicalMedicine