The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in 49 high burden countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted tuberculosis (TB) health services, including treatment support and access to drugs, as patients were not able to access health facilities. While the effect of this disruption on treatment outcomes has been studied in isolated treatment centres, cities and provinces, the impact of the pandemic on TB treatment outcomes at a country and regional level has not been evaluated.

Methods

We used treatment outcomes for new and relapse TB cases reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) from 49 high TB, TB/HIV and drug-resistant TB burden countries from 2012 to 2019. We developed multinomial logistic regression models for trends in TB treatment success, failure, death and loss to follow up. We predicted TB treatment outcomes for 2020 and

SUBMITTER: Gunsaru V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11288071 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature