Trial reportPloS one2019
Tuberculosis in Brazil and cash transfer programs: A longitudinal database study of the effect of cash transfer on cure rates.
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- A Matter of Inclusion: A Cluster-Randomized Trial to Access the Effect of Food Vouchers Versus Traditional Treatment on Tuberculosis Outcomes in Brazil.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2022Trial
- HIV and Tuberculosis Coinfection in Brazil: Cohort Profile Monitored by the Unified Health System (2015-2018).Journal of community health · 2026Observational
- Evaluation of social protection for people affected by tuberculosis: development of an indicator matrix for Brazil.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Effect of specific and sensitive interventions for the social protection of people affected by tuberculosis: a meta-analysis.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2025Article
- Public social protection policies for people affected by tuberculosis: a documentary analysis.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Social and health factors associated with unfavourable treatment outcomes in children and adolescents with drug-sensitive tuberculosis in Brazil: a national retrospective cohort study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2024Article
- The effect of conditional cash transfers on tuberculosis incidence and mortality is determined by ethnoracial and socioeconomic factors: a cohort study of 54 million individuals in Brazil.Research square · 2024Article
- Social protection as a right of people affected by tuberculosis: a scoping review and conceptual framework.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2023Article
- Time to Treatment and Risk Factors for Unsuccessful Treatment Outcomes among People Who Started Second-Line Treatment for Rifampicin-Resistant or Multi-Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the Kyrgyz Republic, 2021.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- Social Protection Interventions for TB-Affected Households: A Scoping Review.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Ending tuberculosis in a post-COVID-19 world: a person-centred, equity-oriented approach.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2023Review
- Access of people with pulmonary tuberculosis to government programs: Primary Care professionals' perceptions.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2023Article
- Social Determinants of Adherence to Treatment for Tuberculosis Infection and Disease Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: A Narrative Review.Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society · 2022Review
- Identifying Hotspots of People Diagnosed of Tuberculosis with Addiction to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs through a Geospatial Intelligence Application in Communities from Southern Brazil.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2022Article
- Coverage and effectiveness of conditional cash transfer for people with drug resistant tuberculosis in Zimbabwe: A mixed methods study.PLOS global public health · 2022Article
- All nonadherence is equal but is some more equal than others? Tuberculosis in the digital era.ERJ open research · 2020Review
- Closing gaps in the tuberculosis care cascade: an action-oriented research agenda.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2020Review
- Introducing risk inequality metrics in tuberculosis policy development.Nature communications · 2019Article
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Abstract
introductionTuberculosis incidence is disproportionately high among people in poverty. Cash transfer programs have become an important strategy in Brazil fight inequalities as part of comprehensive poverty alleviation policies. This study was aimed at assessing the effect of being a beneficiary of a governmental cash transfer program on tuberculosis (TB) treatment cure rates.
methodsWe conducted a longitudinal database study including people ≥18 years old with confirmed incident TB in Brazil in 2015. We treated missing data with multiple imputation. Poisson regression models with robust variance were carried out to assess the effect of TB determinants on cure rates. The average effect of being beneficiary of cash transfer was estimated by propensity-score matching.
resultsIn 2015, 25,084 women and men diagnosed as new tuberculosis case, of whom 1,714 (6.8%) were beneficiaries of a national cash transfer. Among the total population with pulmonary tuberculosis several determinants were associated with cure rates. However, among the cash transfer group, this association was vanished in males, blacks, region of residence, and people not deprived of their freedom and who smoke tobacco. The average treatment effect of cash transfers on TB cure rates, based on propensity score matching, found that being beneficiary of cash transfer improved TB cure rates by 8% [Coefficient 0.08 (95% confidence interval 0.06-0.11) in subjects with pulmonary TB].
conclusionOur study suggests that, in Brazil, the effect of cash transfer on the outcome of TB treatment may be achieved by the indirect effect of other determinants. Also, these results suggest the direct effect of being beneficiary of cash transfer on improving TB cure rates.
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