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ArticleFrontiers in public health2019

Performance of and Factors Associated With Tuberculosis Screening and Diagnosis Among People Living With HIV: Analysis of 2012-2016 Routine HIV Data in Tanzania.

Werner Maokola, Bernard Ngowi, Lovetti Lawson, Michael Mahande, Jim Todd, Sia E Msuya

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Werner MaokolaNational AIDS Control Program/Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Bernard NgowiNational Institute of Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Lovetti LawsonZanklin Medical Center, Abuja, Nigeria.
Michael MahandeInstitute of Public Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi Urban, Tanzania.
Jim ToddInstitute of Public Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi Urban, Tanzania.
Sia E MsuyaInstitute of Public Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi Urban, Tanzania.
Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre · TZNational Institute for Medical Research · TZZankli Medical Centre · NG

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

People Living with HIV (PLHIV) should be screened for tuberculosis (TB) at every visit to the HIV care and treatment clinic (CTC), and those with positive results on screening should undergo further diagnostic investigations. We evaluated the performance of the TB diagnosis cascade among PLHIV attending CTC between January 2012 and December 2016 in three regions of Tanzania: Dar es Salaam, Iringa, and Njombe. We used descriptive epidemiology to evaluate performance and logistic regression to determine odds ratios (OR) for factors associated with TB screening and further TB diagnosis after positive TB screening. We analyzed 169,741 PLHIV who made 2,638,876 visits to CTC between January 2012 and December 2016. We excluded 2,074 (0.80%) visits as these involved PLHIV enrolled in CTC with a prior TB disease diagnosis. Of the 2,636,802 visits, 2,524,494 (95.67%) had TB screening according to national guidelines, of which 88,028 (3.49%) had TB screening positive results. Of the 88,028 visits with a positive TB screening, 27,810 (31.59%) had no records for further TB diagnosis following positive TB screening. Of all visits with positive TB screening, 32,986 (37.50%) had a TB disease diagnosis. On multivariate logistic regression, those who visited with World Health Organization (WHO) clinical stage four (aOR = 3.61, 95% CI 3.48-3.75,

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