ArticlePublic health action2019
Implementation of screening and management of household contacts of tuberculosis cases in Daru, Papua New Guinea.
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- Continuous quality improvement in a community-wide TB screening and prevention programme in Papua New Guinea.Public health action · 2024Article
- Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Case-Finding Strategies: Scoping Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Association between TB delay and TB treatment outcomes in HIV-TB co-infected patients: a study based on the multilevel propensity score method.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Household drug-resistant TB contact tracing in Tajikistan.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2023Article
- Priority Activities in Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis to Close the Policy-Practice Gap in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Early pandemic use of face masks in Papua New Guinea under a mask mandate.Western Pacific surveillance and response journal : WPSARArticle
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Abstract
settingDaru Island, Western Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
objectiveTo describe the implementation of a screening programme for household contacts of tuberculosis (TB) cases residing on Daru Island.
designThis was a retrospective descriptive study evaluating two periods of implementation: introduction and expansion of a screening programme for household contacts of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) cases (March 2016 to September 2017), and inclusion of drug-susceptible TB (DS-TB) cases with provision of preventive therapy for eligible contacts between October 2017 and March 2018.
resultsIn the first period, the contact screening programme was established and strengthened by increasing coverage over time. There was a large number of contacts (median 8) in each household, and a high uptake of screening. In the second period of evaluation, respectively 412 and 223 contacts of 42 DS-TB and 25 DR-TB index cases were screened. Overall, 156 (24.6%) contacts reported TB-related symptoms and 9 (1.4%) were diagnosed with active TB. All 9 commenced TB treatment: 5 had DS-TB and 4 had DR-TB. Of 82 child contacts of DS-TB cases eligible for preventive therapy, 57 (69.5%) commenced treatment and 45 completed treatment.
conclusionCommunity-based household contact screening and management was successfully implemented under programme conditions in this high burden TB and DR-TB setting in PNG.
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