Effect of integrating traditional care with modern healthcare to improve tuberculosis control programs in Ethiopia: a protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the world, despite being a preventable and curable disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) End-TB Strategy, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sets a target of reducing the TB mortality rate by 95%, TB incidence rate by 90%, and catastrophic costs due to TB by 2035, compared with a 2015 level. To achieve these ambitious targets, several interventions have been implemented in the last few years, resulting in major progress toward reducing the burden of TB. However, over one-third of the global TB cases remained undetected and never received treatment. Most of those undetected cases were found in low- and middle-income countries such as Ethiopia. Though several interventions were

SUBMITTER: Amare D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10494418 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature