ArticleAfrican health sciences2021
Comparative yield of different active TB case finding interventions in a large urban TB project in central Uganda: a descriptive study.
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- AI-Driven Tuberculosis Hotspot Mapping to Optimize Active Case-Finding: Implementing the Epi-Control Platform in Uganda.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026Article
- Finding the missing men with tuberculosis: a participatory approach to identify priority interventions in Uganda.Health policy and planning · 2025Article
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- Editorial: TB on the rise: but researchers are not sleeping.African health sciences · 2021Article
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introductionSystematic screening for TB among patients presenting to care and among high risk populations is recommended to improve TB case finding. We aimed to describe the comparative yield of three TB screening approaches implemented by a large urban TB project in central Uganda.
methodsWe abstracted data on the screening cascade from 65 health facilities and their surrounding communities (numbers screened, with presumptive TB, receiving a diagnostic test and diagnosed with TB) from the different clinic and community TB registers.
resultsFrom January 2018 to December 2019, 93,378 (24%) of all patients screened at health facilities had presumptive TB; 77,381 (82.9%) received a diagnostic test and 14,305 (18.5%) were diagnosed with TB. The screening yield (the number of patients diagnosed with TB out of all patients screened) was 0.3% and was three times higher among men than women (0.6% vs 0.2% p<0.01). During targeted community screening interventions, 9874 (21.1%) of all patients screened had presumptive TB; 7034 (71.2%) of these received a diagnostic test and 1699 (24.2%) were diagnosed with TB. The screening yield was higher among men, (3.7% vs 3.3% p<0.01) and highest among children 0-14 (4.8% vs 3.2% p<0.01).
conclusionTargeted community TB screening interventions improve access to TB diagnosis for men and children 0-14 years.
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