Progress toward eliminating TB and HIV deaths in Brazil, 2001-2015: a spatial assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Brazil has high burdens of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, as previously estimated for the 26 states and the Federal District, as well as high levels of inequality in social and health indicators. We improved the geographic detail of burden estimation by modelling deaths due to TB and HIV and TB case fatality ratios for the more than 5400 municipalities in Brazil.

Methods

This ecological study used vital registration data from the national mortality information system and TB case notifications from the national communicable disease notification system from 2001 to 2015. Mortality due to TB and HIV was modelled separately by cause and sex using a Bayesian spatially explicit mixed effects regression model. TB incidence was modelled using the same approach. Results were c

SUBMITTER: Ross JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6125942 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature