Modelling the impact of effective private provider engagement on tuberculosis control in urban India.

ABSTRACT: In India, the country with the world's largest burden of tuberculosis (TB), most patients first seek care in the private healthcare sector, which is fragmented and unregulated. Ongoing initiatives are demonstrating effective approaches for engaging with this sector, and form a central part of India's recent National Strategic Plan: here we aimed to address their potential impact on TB transmission in urban settings, when taken to scale. We developed a mathematical model of TB transmission dynamics, calibrated to urban populations in Mumbai and Patna, two major cities in India where pilot interventions are currently ongoing. We found that, when taken to sufficient scale to capture 75% of patient-provider interactions, the intervention could reduce incidence by upto 21.3% (95% Bayesian credi

SUBMITTER: Arinaminpathy N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6405912 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature