ArticlePublic health action2016
Food assistance to tuberculosis patients: lessons from Afghanistan.
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- Qualitative study of acceptability, benefits, and feasibility of a food-based intervention among participants and stakeholders of the RATIONS trial.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Nutritionally acquired immunodeficiency must be addressed with the same urgency as HIV to end tuberculosis.BMC global and public health · 2024Review
- Social protection as a right of people affected by tuberculosis: a scoping review and conceptual framework.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2023Article
- A scoping review of patient-centred tuberculosis care interventions: Gaps and opportunities.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
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- Influence of patients' living conditions on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in a South African health sub-district.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2020Article
- Impact of community-based adherence support on treatment outcomes for tuberculosis, leprosy and HIV/AIDS-infected individuals in post-Ebola Liberia.Global health action · 2018Article
- Comparison of two cash transfer strategies to prevent catastrophic costs for poor tuberculosis-affected households in low- and middle-income countries: An economic modelling study.PLoS medicine · 2017Article
- Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients' views of interventions to reduce treatment loss to follow-up.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2017Article
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Abstract
Poverty, food insecurity and poor nutrition in the population are important contributors to the burden of tuberculosis (TB). For poor and food-insecure individuals, accessing and successfully completing anti-tuberculosis treatment over an extended period of time is challenging. Food and nutritional support as an incentive and enabler is employed by national TB control programmes (NTPs) worldwide as a means to encourage treatment initiation and adherence and to improve the nutritional status of patients with TB. It also offers a safety net for food-insecure households affected by TB to mitigate the financial consequences of the disease. This paper reports on the primary lessons from the review of the World Food Programme's (WFP's) Food Assistance Programme for TB patients in Afghanistan. It aims to inform the design, implementation and scale-up of TB programmes in settings where food insecurity and malnutrition are prevalent. It also documents qualitative findings that suggest that patients, their families and providers viewed food support as an important asset and an essential element of the national TB control strategy. While the impact on treatment success or case detection could not be quantified, it is likely that the WFP intervention had a positive impact on the patients and their households, therefore contributing to the success of the DOTS-based NTP.
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