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Nyasha Mafirakureva @nyashamafirakureva.bsky.social · Jun 27
Check out our new @PLOSGPH paper exploring the impact and cost-effectiveness of near point-of-care technology for diagnosing #tuberculosis in children in primary healthcare settings. Read it here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... From @petedodd24.bsky.social
Evaluating the health impact, health-system costs and cost-effectiveness of using TrueNat on stool samples compared to usual care for the diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis in primary care settings:...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends rapid molecular diagnostics to improve bacteriological confirmation of tuberculosis in children. TrueNat MTB, MTB Plus and MTB-RIF Dx assays (Molbio Diag...
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Nyasha Mafirakureva @nyashamafirakureva.bsky.social · Jun 25
📢 In our PREPRINT with @petedodd24.bsky.social‬ - medrxiv.org/cgi/content/... we estimate that ~340K women developed #tuberculosis during pregnancy & postpartum globally in 2023. Critical insights for maternal health.
Global estimates of tuberculosis incidence during pregnancy and postpartum: a rapid review and modelling analysis
Introduction Despite known maternal, perinatal and infant health risks of tuberculosis during pregnancy, global estimates of incidence remain limited. Existing estimates are outdated, and do not inclu...
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Pete Dodd @petedodd24.bsky.social · Apr 25
WHO recommends treatment decision scoring algorithms to help diagnose child #Tuberculosis. Thx to #Unitaid, our TB-Speed team evaluated them to be very cost-effective for children with severe acute malnutrition in UGA & ZAM

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Treatment decision algorithms for tuberculosis screening and diagnosis in children below 5 years hospitalised with severe acute malnutrition: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are an important risk group for underdiagnosis and death from tuberculosis. In 2022, the World Health Or…
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Pete Dodd @petedodd24.bsky.social · May 12
Meeting the health needs of incarcerated people can be costly. We found that targeted #tuberculosis infection screening at 1st reception in England could be cost saving.
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Cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis infection screening at first reception into English prisons: a model-based analysis
The World Health Organization recommends systematic screening for tuberculosis in incarcerated populations, which are consistently at high risk of tub…
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