Feasibility, enablers and challenges of using timeliness metrics for household contact tracing and TB preventive therapy in Pakistan.

Feasibility, enablers and challenges of using timeliness metrics for household contact tracing and TB preventive therapy in Pakistan.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Screening household contacts of TB patients and providing TB preventive therapy (TPT) is a key intervention to end the TB epidemic. Global and timely implementation of TPT in household contacts, however, is dismal. We adapted the 7-1-7 timeliness metric designed to e...

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Main Authors: Bushra Jamil, Divya Nair, Pruthu Thekkur, Neelofar Laeeq, Anum Adil, Mohammed Khogali, Rony Zachariah, Selma Dar Berger, Srinath Satyanarayana, Ajay M V Kumar, Aaron Bochner, Amanda McClelland, Razia Fatima, Anthony D Harries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295580
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