Subnational tuberculosis burden estimation for Pakistan.

ABSTRACT: Global tuberculosis (TB) burden estimates are aggregated at the national level, despite the likelihood of uneven distribution across and within regions in the same country. Subnational estimates are crucial to producing informed policies and informing budget allocation at more granular levels. In collaboration with the National TB Programme (NTP), we applied a simple and transparent tool to estimate the subnational TB burden in Pakistan. We tailored the SUBnational Burden Estimation for TB (SUBsET) tool to account for the district-level hierarchy of Pakistan. Districts were assigned weighted scores based on population size, level of urbanisation, households with one room, and food insecurity levels. Using the 2022 national TB incidence estimate, we first allocated the burden across adminis

SUBMITTER: Schwalb A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11419375 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature