Community-based mobile tuberculosis clinics in rural Madagascar: impact and cost-effectiveness analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Tuberculosis (TB) remains an important public health challenge globally. Madagascar faces a substantial TB burden despite enhanced efforts from its national TB control programme. This necessitates innovative and context-specific TB prevention and care interventions that are both impactful and cost-effective. We evaluated the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a community-based mobile TB clinic intervention in a remote rural area of Madagascar, addressing specific access barriers and implementation challenges.

Methods

The analysis employed an interrupted time series analysis (ITSA) comparing the intervention to the standard national TB control programme (NTP) to assess the effectiveness of the intervention in increasing TB case detection rates. A decision tr

SUBMITTER: Beigel L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12581032 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature