Effectiveness of a conditional cash transfer programme on TB cure rate: a retrospective cohort study in Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the efforts of the National Tuberculosis Programme, TB cure rates in Brazil are sub-optimal. The End TB Strategy for post-2015 identifies conditional cash transfer interventions as powerful tools to improve TB control indicators, including TB cure rate. This study aims to inform the new policy by evaluating the role of the Bolsa Familia Programme (BFP), one of the largest conditional cash transfer programmes in the world, on TB cure rates in Brazil.

Methods

We undertook a retrospective cohort study, based on an unprecedented record linkage of socioeconomic and health data, to compare cases of patients newly diagnosed with TB in 2010 receiving BFP cash benefits (n=5788) with those who did not (n=1467) during TB treatment. We used Poisson regression with rob

SUBMITTER: Torrens AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6078175 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature